Word: sure
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...result is sure...
...sure as the eternal truth...
...GRADUATES OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, - This is your day. I will not, as I ought not, take up any part of this valuable time. You will therefore excuse me, I am sure, if I take my seat after saying, in the briefest way, the formal words, I assure you that I have a very grateful appreciation of this hearty greeting. I know, I know, how little it is deserved. God grant that during the remainder of my term I may be able to do something to deserve...
...keep it there until the finish. The effect that our victory ought to, and will, have is an increased interest in boating at Harvard, and the success of this year will be but a stronger incentive to work for a like success next year, when we may be sure that Yale will do all she can to reverse the result...
...sure, there are many differences between the college life of the present and the college life of an age when the student received what mental instruction could be crammed into him while he was under the charge of his gymnastic teacher, when the library, which owed its increase to each student's yearly donation of one hundred volumes, was kept in the gymnasium, and when proctors successfully looked after the moral training of the youth. But both differences and similarities show that student life is much the same, whatever the time or wherever the place...