Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present Harvard system the finish is very poor. The trunk is doubt led up, the shoulders are rounded and breathing is not free. The boat's impetus is interrupted by the labored action of feathering with the outside forearm and elbow and by the "sudden rush forward of the arms and trunk" after feathering. The whole weight of the rowing crew is shifted aft together, with the result that the stern is buried and the impetus again interrupted at the very moment when every extra ounce of weight tells, while the oarsman is brought to the full reach...
...than that it should be expended in adornment. Any improvements will of course be welcome if they are made in a proper way. As between even a slight reduction of room rent and an iron fence, however, self interest would dictate the choice of the former. The college, we doubt not, is too wise to pursue any other course...
...considerable complaint lately of the rule at Memorial which requires a week's notice to be given before leaving the hall. This complaint is made not in behalf of those who wish to leave the hall, but for the many who are on the waiting list. There is no doubt that the rute is wise in many ways, and one that should be strictly adhered to in the ordinary condition of affairs. At this time, however, there seems to be every reason for a temporary suspension of the regulation in question. As things stand at present, each extra week which...
...resume of the previous month; not a record of the ordinary course, but what changes the ordinary course of college life;" and it will also "open its columns to matter such as the Century would publish under "Open Letters," or the Nation under 'Correspondence.' There is room for doubt, however, whether there will be material for "The Month" on its present basis in each issue. The editors also describe the Monthly and its aims, claiming for it the position of a medium for students, graduates, and faculty. It will continue to regard as its primary object, the publication...
...College Conference meetings, which have been held during the last three years with increasing interest and profit, will begin again tonight in Sever as announced in another column. To those who have already been in college a year these meetings need no recommendation. They have beyond a doubt proved their claim to student recognition and patronage. To those who are unacquainted with the purpose of the meetings, however, a word of explanation may be a kindness...