Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...replying to Yale's challenge. At that time there was some apprehension lest the authorities here should forbid the freshmen to row any intercollegiate race. It was thought necessary on account of '91's defeat last year by Columbia to challenge Columbia this year, but on account of the doubt in regard to being allowed to row any race, no challenge was sent for some time. The delay in replying to Yale's challenge was made, therefore, on account of the necessary delay in sending a challenge to Columbia and in receiving a reply...
...unable to provide anything like the required sum, nevertheless, judging from precedent-money for the new medical school, for the museum for the botanical department, and the funds for the maintenance of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, which were all raised by general subscription-the President has not the least doubt that a call for the necessary sum would not go unheeded...
SIRS: The publication in your columns of a review of the President's report, and the statement therein that a gift of $25,000 was made last year for the building of five courts for the nine, naturally raises the question why has this improvement not been made? No doubt sufficient cause for the delay exists, yet it would contribute to the satisfaction of the friends of baseball to know what this cause is. May we not hope through your columns for an explanation...
Yesterday Captain Herrick tried the effect of attaching strips to the back of the oar-blades, and this no doubt will have the desired result of counteracting excessive pressure on the blades. Other slight changes will of course be made during the year. The tank, however, is at present working almost as well as can be expected...
These figures demonstrate beyond a doubt that participation in athletics does not lower the standing of those engaged (except freshmen). "That the scholarship of the college has not seriously suffered from the growth of athletics is further demonstrated by the steady rise in the average standing of the graduating classes during the past eleven years; while new sports have been added, and the number of participants has largely increased, the average standing has risen from 67 1-2 per cent. to 73 per cent...