Word: guessed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...after it was delivered with the account of it in the present issue will show why it is asked. Our various papers taken together might be expected to form a fairly comprehensive record of our activities and interests; but on the evidence they furnish how can posterity ever guess that there are those among us who regard that brilliant and exalted interpretation of "Intimations of Immortality in the Sonnets of Shakspere" as comparable in importance with the winning of the Yale game...
...college at large) are keenly interested. We read the papers, for "dope," as we cannot attend the secret practice, and we know that the "dope" we read is mostly "fake." We guess, compare scores, hear rumors from other colleges, and gradually work ourselves into a fever of excitement before the match game with Yale...
...water. If, for example, the points were now properly marked, the coach could send the University crew in its changed order over the long course and decide whether the eight as now made up is faster than it was before the Cornell race. As things are now, we merely guess, and do not always guess correctly. No one knows whether the course most commonly used is a mile and seven-eighths long or not. We guess that it is not. If it were, no eight-oared crew in the world would be able to row over it in less than...
Finally, there are the story and the poem. The story is by J. B. Kelley '12. It is called, one cannot guess why. "The Golden West." Its great point is a night-ride with a corpse which does not begin until the middle and stops long before the end. Otherwise it is up to the usual standard. The poem called "The Grain Elevators at Duluth" by H. B. Sheahan '09 is distinguished mainly by the inaptitude of the last stanza and the vision of wheatmills that both "loom" and are "outlined...