Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...silent consent, the objection to active exercise passes over the ordinary ill received, and fixes itself almost entirely on one organ, the heart, and there, on almost one malady alone, hypertrophy, the overgrowth of the muscular substance. That this disease can arise from physical exercise there can be no doubt. That it does frequently thus arise in healthy persons, I do not believe. In a long experience I have seen scarcely one case of organic disease of the heart which can be traced to amateur athletic sport, pure and simple, that is, if the man was healthy originally. The increased...
...writer in the last number of the Advocate urges that something be done to cheapen the cost of living at Harvard. The subject seems bound to come up for discussion ever so often; then for a while it is laid away again. Without doubt the necessary expenses here are greater than at any other college in the country. But this cost is partly offset by the fact that it is possible to earn much more money here than elsewhere; the scholarships are larger and more numerous, and the chances to find tutoring are better. So it often happens that...
...note how well this rule is emphasized in the matter of versalility of languages. The French, in regard to translation, was shown to be remarkably versatile. But read the following renderings from a sight passage in German given to a freshman class of not many years ago, and doubt, if you will, that...
...world bought the magazines as our little college world does, they would be better than gold mines to the publishers. We are interested in all the contents; in the clever stories, serious discussions, and love ditties even. No doubt many of our college mates will be editors and contributors before long. Some indeed have begun to contribute already...
...Director of the Arnold Arboretum, and only three or four students. Such a state of things can well be accounted for by the fact that the institution is yet young, and has had little time to become known. When its advantages are fully appreciated, however, there is no doubt that it will be patronized as it deserves...