Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present time, the usefulness of the society is not very great, not as great as it has been, not as great as it will be. That the opportunities of usefulness in the future will increase, the record of the society in the past will establish beyond a doubt. With the opening of the spring, the Co-operative will be able to do more for its members than it can at the present time. In the single item of tennis goods, much more than the $1.50 can easily be saved. Many, indeed, save this sum on the purchase of tennis balls...
...attend in such large numbers the meeting last evening ; we are doubly glad that the sentiments expressed there were so unanimously in favor of the continuance of this, the most needed of Harvard societies. Within two weeks, $200 must be raised, and there is not the slightest doubt that double or triple that amount could be raised, if necessary. But let not the students, therefore, be relax, and fail to subscribe, Let every member go to the Co-operative office, and put down his name for whatever amount he feels like contributing. Let every man in college...
...drag through the year and end up with a deficit, and an assessment that could never be collected. Such a failure as that would kill co-operation at Harvard. Such a one as they propose is merely the end of a partially successful experiment, and will without doubt lead to another in the future...
...This language was reported on good authority to be a close adaptation of that famous tongue which gave birth to the words (since adopted as the favorite motto of the athletic committee) "Veni, vidi, vici." But, alas ! strange inconsistencies have crept in with the progress of civilization, until we doubt if even Caesar himself would take much pleasure in perusing the contents of the catalogue of the present...
...this they have been gradually screwing their courage to the sticking point. The sticking point has at last been reached, and their courage has stuck. A vote has been passed advising and recommending that the catalogue hereafter be printed in English, our natural tongue. There seems, then, little doubt but that hereafter we shall be able to recognize ourselves when her names appear in the quinquennial catalogue...