Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...room during this operation, and seeing two legs sticking out of the bed where the head ought to be. seized a piece of rope and calling for help, tied the unlucky man securely to the bed by winding the rope around both. Ever after this there has been a doubt in the landlady's mind about the sanity of my friend, and in his, about the strength of her mind. But it is quite needless to say that he is now more careful in his choice of dark rooms...
...aside from the increased efficiency of its crew, every class would prefer to employ a coach in order to relieve the captain or some other oarsman of the trouble of coaching. In regard to the university crew, one of its past members in the Law School would no doubt consent to act as coach for nothing. Indeed, he might think it his duty to do so. It would, however, be an imposition upon him by the athletic committee. He would be giving an amount of his time for nothing, which to another man was worth $750 a year...
There is no doubt that the committee have chosen a favorable time, for them, to make their move. The past season has seen us burdened with a poor eleven, and ending with a poorer record than ever before. But this makes it only the harder in the eyes of the world for us to give up the game gracefully. Many men, too, have temporarily lost their interest in the game on account of the poor work of the eleven, and will not make the protest against the prohibition that they ordinarily would. This is unfortunate and we advise every...
...Abbot, '86; vice-president, G. Hopkins, '88; secretary and treasurer, G. E. Howes, '86. No other business of importance was transacted and the meeting adjourned. By this meeting another club is added to the long list of clubs already existing in the college. The coming winter will, no doubt, give the young club an opportunity to display its usefulness and advantages to the students...
...excellence. For, while the Glee club expects to maintain the excellent reputation which it has enjoyed in the past, the Pierian Sodality was never in so flourishing a condition as at present. Unprecedented efforts, by means of numerous rehearsals, have been made in preparation, and the club will no doubt surpass all its former performances...