Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Monday next. There can be but little question of its success. Eighty-four gave a third representation of their play, "Hernani," which was in every way successful; and judging from the way in which "Joan of Arc" was received last week in New York, there can be no doubt that it will be well received in Boston, and capable of filling three good houses...
Again, let us look at foot-ball, which in the days of "Tom Brown," was played by fifty or more men, without any more regard for science than any ordinary mob displays; no doubt the game was exciting; no doubt, fine plays were made; but it was still painfully crude and undeveloped. Let us look at it now;-twenty-two men, carefully trained and in the highest possession of all their powers, contest the game with all the confidence and skill that only careful instruction inspires. There they depended on numbers and strent to win the game; here, there...
...doubt the failure of recent appeals in the interest of athletics and the fate of the last prayer petition has pretty thoroughly dampened our enthusiasm for reforms. Here, however, we have a new theme, and one which appears to me to be of the greatest consequence, not only to the students, but to the general reputation of the college...
...long a period as either English VII or VIII, cannot be safely conducted in the same manner as a course which restricts its work to a close examination of a few of the works of one man. Whatever may be said against the lecture system, there can be no doubt that it is the only system which can be successfully pursued in a course which attempts to cover the ground laid down in English VII. Even under the lecture system a half course which meets but once a week cannot attempt anything but a cursory and wholly unsatisfactory examination...
...differed principally in its length. The President always expounded the chapter from the testament which was read. On Sunday, probably for variety, this exposition was omitted, and in the evening one of the students repeated from memory the sermons he had heard during the day, a practice no doubt pleasing to its victim, and his fellow sufferers. The President was required to officiate, and in his absence one of the tutors. From numerous traditions it would seem as though the tutor especially thought they were working by the day, and not by the job. Music by the singing club...