Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale has at last organized a co-operative society, and it cost her a pang, no doubt, to follow the lead of her rival, Harvard; but her good sense perceived the advantages of co-operation which are manifest wherever it has been tried," says the Student...
...marks delayed ad infinitum. In the courses in which there are only a few men, an early return of the blue books with the marks on them, is a matter of no exertion for the instructors. In such courses the longing of the students will be quickly satisfied, no doubt. But in other courses, where the men number hundreds, and one instructor has several such, great delay in getting back the examination books necessarily results. Weeks, and in a few cases months, must elapse before the students learn their marks. We can only exhort them to have patience, to reason...
...more faith in his ability than those who room near him, and who have heard him practising. "Love is blind, and cannot see," as we all know; and in this case love is deaf and cannot hear. That it is a case of love, there can be no doubt; for he, the typical yodeler pursues the object of his passion, the very elusive and unattainable yodel, at all hours of the day and night. He kneels at his inamorata's shrine when first he wakes; and at the solemn hours of mid-night he flats a few sweet notes...
...young ladies on the same terms with young men; but the conservative body of august men was suffering from an attack of that disease, peculiar to such bodies, known as impecunia. They refused to have anything to do with the new enterprise until its success was established beyond a doubt...
...therefore recommend the consideration of these facts to the several captains who have absolute authority, and consequently the responsibility in all questions in regard to training. An inquiry into the matter may lead to most beneficial results. No doubt it would be possible to determine the exact temperature below which it is injurious to the crews to take violent exercise in the open...