Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish also to protest against the surly and ungentlemanly conduct of the employees at the Gymnasium. They turn down the lights in the evening before the appointed hour of closing without any regard to what the students are doing, and they parade through the building like masters...
...lately published correspondence of Matthew Arnold, Coleridge, Edward Fitzgerald, Flaubert, and Stevenson. The Coleridge volumes contain the fullest record yet printed of the poet's life, the long struggle with opium, and an indolent and irresolute nature. Arnold's letters also are largely biographical by intention, since Arnold like Thackeray was unwilling to have any formal life of himself published. A good many dry and trivial details, as well as references to persons still living, might well have been omitted; and the finical hypercritical streak in the great critic comes to the surface with unpleasant frequency. But the collection...
...final competitive debate to choose the Yale speakers for the coming Yale-Harvard debate will be held about Easter and will be open to all members of the university. The announcement that the Harvard Freshman Debating Club is prohibited in the future from holding joint debates with like organizations in other colleges is generally regretted here as terminating one of the existing opportunities for friendly intellectual rivalry between the two universities...
...writer in one place speaks of the stimulus that liberal prizes like the scholarships would be to the rich man. What powerful incentive would money be to the man who already has plenty? The chief incentive to such a man would be the honor gained, and there are higher honors open to the scholar than those which are called scholarships. If the scholarships were open to those men who had plenty of money, it would be hardly fair to the poorer students. A rich man would feel when he won a scholarship that the money would far better have gone...
Fitz '99 is another man with a good reputation. He comes from the Newton High School and, like Clarkson, has had a good deal of experience in interscholastic games. He also pitched last summer for the Newton Athletic Association against many local teams. He is a left handed pitcher with average speed and curves and uses his head well...