Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...marking system are many and great, its advantages few and insignificant. The faculty, we understand, are by a large majority in favor of a change, and all that is needed is a little agitation of the question from the students side to inaugurate the reform. There is little doubt that, with careful thought, a system could be devised answering the desired purpose much better than the present system...
...when a request is made by the faculty which contains so little that is objectionable to the undergraduate mind as the rules laid down in the recent circular contain, we think that the students are in duty bound to conform. As to the upper-classmen, we have no doubt that the request will be heeded. It may be that we are "counting our chickens" too early, but the verbum sap. had better be given at a venture than given too late...
...date of the game with Yale has been arranged within the past two weeks; but if these two events come off at the same time, great difficulties occur: first, if the sports take precedence, the freshmen will be deprived of Holmes Field, on which, no doubt, they can do the best work; secondly, they will be deprived of a great deal of support by the division of spectators; thirdly, they cannot seat on Jarvis even those spectators whom they get. Now the freshman game being an inter-collegiate championship game, should rightly take precedure of a college contest, especially...
...good work with the bat while facing a strong pitcher. The fielding was steady, notably in centre field, and the work of the battery was well up to the standard we have been taught to expect. With the nine in its present condition, there ought to be but little doubt of the issue of the game against Brown this afternoon. At any rate, we feel justified in the belief that the ruinous slip made by the nine in its game at Providence last year is not to be repeated...
...Sunday Herald said, "If the Harvards bat in championship games as they did Saturday, the result of the season will not be in doubt...