Word: fears
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...vogue, we cannot of course complain, as that system is said to be "absolutely infallible." However, when we hear of a man whose mark was something like minus 18 on the mid-years, rated, on a subsequent consultation of the "curve," at nearly plus 40, we begin to fear that even equations and curves may err. We trust other instructors, seeing that the curve is for once wrong, will be led to overlook their mid-year calculations, and perhaps make a similar pleasing correction...
...from two till three P. M. The Committee, at the request of the Corporation, have decided to give tickets to the Yard and to Memorial Hall to Seniors in other departments of the University, on condition of their paying five dollars, which is half the regular Senior assessment. The fear, which many persons entertain, that there will be a terrible crowd at all the exercises, seems to be unfounded. It is not likely that the graduating classes of the Bussey Institution and of the Dental School will flock to Cambridge in overwhelming numbers, and should large delegations come to Cambridge...
...evenings appointed for the Senior class to visit the Observatory have failed, we fear, to give entire satisfaction to those chiefly interested. The sky, with a shameful disregard of all right feeling in the matter, has remained persistently overcast for most of the time appointed. It certainly seems that the authorities are well borne out by the elements in their determination to keep us away from the Observatory. We know that we are asking a great deal, but if there come a nice clear evening next week, would it not be allowable for a few men from seventy-eight...
...give a decisive answer to this very puzzling conundrum. When an American committee announce that "this regatta is open only to amateurs," we always find in the next paragraph, "we define an amateur to be," etc., etc. Nothing could be fairer or plainer than this, and unless Henley really fear us it would be well for her to stop this dodging business, and publish her definition. The Columbia crew sail for England on May 22, but they will hardly do much for their college, as they are evidently rather slow...
...fitted up a laboratory in one corner of my own room; and there I concocted all manner of horrible compounds. There were objections to this private laboratory. A peculiar odor was wafted into the entry every time I opened the door, and several violent explosions made my neighbors fear lest I should some day blow the house to pieces. But I had the true chemist's indifference to smells, and the greatest confidence in my own skill...