Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Union has appointed a committee to take charge of the matter is a guarantee that the reading-room will be established, and we think that the action of the Union will be much appreciated. The advantages of a reading-room are undeniably great, and we do not doubt that the reading-room will prove a great success...
...which many of them leave the recitation room. Freshman German sections in University are often dismissed five or ten minutes before the close of the hour, and these dismissals are attended by so much noise that students in the other recitation rooms are greatly disturbed. We have no doubt that the freshmen are merely thoughtless, and we hope that they will be more careful of the rights of others in the future...
...game should take place in New Haven. Princeton failed to get the desired permission, but is allowed to play on the Polo Grounds, New York, next Saturday. Now Yale says the agreement has been broken, and they are bound to have the game at New Haven. There is no doubt that, acting strictly by the letters of the agreement, Yale has the right of the question, yet what possible difference it can make to Yale whether they play in New York on Thanksgiving or four or five days earlier than that, no one, except themselves, is able...
...college as those now being given on California by Dr. Royce. The capacity of Sever 11 has been taxed to the utmost; and if large audiences continue, it would seem quite advisable that the place for the lectures be changed to Sanders Theatre. There can be little doubt that the great interest in Californian history, as well as Dr. Royce's unusual ability as a lecturer, would draw audiences that would not feel at all lost even in such a capacious auditorium as the theatre. The change to Sanders would give a popular course of lectures the prominence that...
...spelling. The correct way of spelling the name of the board is "Shakespeare." I happened to come across a theme the other day, on one of our well known authors, in the heading of which the writer of the theme had spelt the name wrong. I have no doubt that a low mark will be the result of such a mistake. Now why should we countenance the mistake of persons who ought to know better in this instance? Surely they cannot have read or seen a reprint of the first folio of 1623, for there this name as in most...