Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lately in the Advocate Mr. C. H. Barrows declares that if Harvard is to lead among our colleges, her graduates must be leaders among men, must be reformers. "The call," he says, "is for those of high culture to be pronounced, generous, and self-sacrificing." Few can doubt his words; for Harvard's reputation is the reputation of her alumni. They must be worth something in the world to make her worth anything. Yet that Harvard may send out such men, it is needful that she herself stand as an example of what is the best; she must...
...first lecture of the course on the professions will be given to-night, in Sever 11, by Hon. O. W. Holmes. The subject, "The Law as a Profession," is, without doubt, more generally interesting than any of the subjects which are to follow. Particularly is this true among Harvard men, - who seem to think of the law first, and medicine, ministry, and so on, second in their attempts to choose their future occupations. Harvard actually sends more men into schools of law than into schools of any other profession, and it is very probably true that a good majority...
...opponents of the consolidation are, as has been said, the principal undergraduates. Their objections seem to be sound from an undergraduate point of view. In the first place, there is doubt if a man of sufficient ability could be got to fill successfully the office of chief treasurer: and where ability was found, partiality to certain sports might make him worthless for the position. Again, supposing the man obtainable, the existence of a chief responsible in a lump for all expenditure would remove all feeling of individual responsibility from the treasurers of the different organizations, and extravagance would...
...Without doubt we have not enough courses in English Literature. In required Rhetoric Prof. Hill lectures on ten authors as masters of English style. He also has two half courses, given in alternate years, on the literature of the eighteenth, and of the nineteenth centuries. Professor Child, besides his two courses in Anglo-Saxon, has one in Chaucer, one in Shakespeare, and one in Bacon and Milton. The Shakespeare may be taken in two successive years, thus counting as two courses; while the Chaucer, and the Bacon and Milton are given in alternate years. This...
...remarkable circumstance. There was only my name written on a piece of white paper, and the endorsement "Paid 50c.' At last I noticed a newspaper slip pasted inside the white paper. It was a piece of a Sunday Herald, headed "President Eliot's Essay on Religion." Here was, without doubt, the cause of this return to righteousness...