Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...owing principally to the energy of Captain Willard. On the other hand, we heard many mutterings that the best men were not all represented on the team, and that a more judicious choosing would have given Harvard a better place in the base-ball contest. We are inclined to doubt the value of these mutterings, for the reason that harmony might have been destroyed if the personnel of the nine had been different. But who, may we ask, has a right to maintain private grievances when his duty lies to his college alone? If we are to regain our prestige...
...unsuspecting betters into a confidence game, it would be all right for them to put forth what are, to say the least, misleading reports concerning their condition and chances of winning. If college races are to become hippodrome contests, then those engaged in them and their friends, are no doubt, under the questionable laws of sport, entitled to make out of them, financially, all that they can, and there is no reason why the tricks of the trade should then be ignored by college men any more than by other conscienceless sportsmen. But it is, and has been, assumed that...
...forced on every man as he sits down to make out his electives for the ensuing year. Moreover it is plain that with the difficulty of the choice, the responsibility increases and it becomes more necessary to weigh the pros and cons in each decision. There can be no doubt that it is just here that the enlargement of the elective pamphlet it apt to bring about the best results. Behind the obvious advantage of having a larger range of subjects included in the instruction given, there lies that deeper advantage of making men more careful and deliberate...
...Princetonian has been afflicted this term with a motley troop of loafers in the editorial rooms, especially on the evening before going to press. Popularity is no doubt a desirable thing to any college organ, but the old adage of familiarity still holds there nevertheless. We have not the least objections to anybody coming into the rooms to consult exchanges and to look up special points of interest, but to use our sanctum all day long as a general rendezvous, which we are sorry to say, has been done by several men, is a little more than can consistently...
...thankful for the suggestion given in the communication in another column. The facts to which it calls attention have surely been allowed to be facts only because they were not known to the college at large and the remedy suggested will do doubt recommend itself to every fair-minded...