Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expensive posters and had them placed upon the bulletin boards than they mysteriously disappear. And yet the mystery attending this sudden disappearance is not so very deep after all, for it is certain that they are taken by no one except freshmen. Has it not yet been made plain to eighty-eight that the old-time practice of "ragging" signs and posters has fallen into disrepute...
...teams. It is needless to point out the lesson to be drawn from this state of things. We feel confident that the men who are to represent the crimson upon river and field will do all that can be done to embellish our trophy room, which, to tell the plain truth, has not in recent years been overcrowded with the colors of victorious teams...
...door training. The ice is just beginning to break up in the river, and the state of Holmes and Jarvis is anything but satisfactory for the prospects of the base-ball and lacrosse teams. The lesson to be drawn from this state of affairs is perfectly plain. It has been too often called to our notice to require much elaboration now. Our teams must make up for their forced inactivity by increased exertions when the period of propitious weather does arrive, and the base-ball men may find some consolation in the thought that Hanover is even further towards...
...some stinging blows on Clement's head and body. In the second round Paine went in for business, and his superior weight began to tell. He did effective work with his left, but many of his blows were dodged and countered by Clement. The third round made it plain that although Clement was more scientific, he was too light to stand up before his adversary. Paine planted some heavy blows on Clement's face, and was awarded the bout...
Granting, then, that fatalism does not take away the zest of life let us inquire how much it modifies our notions of right and wrong. It is plain that no possible answer to the problem of freewill can change the experience men have had of what is good for them. Such conduct as has proved useful in the past, cannot but be thought wise for the future. In so far, therefore, as our notion of right and wrong is founded on experience, it would not seem to be at all effected by fatalism; and we have seen that fatalism does...