Word: sure
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...picked up my Demonology. "Poor ghost!" I thought, "though perhaps rightly punished, his case is a hard one. Were his story more widely known, I am sure that there is not a man in college who would not, to relieve this spirit's pain, give up some of his own pleasures, even that of going to prayers...
...this last change we cannot too strongly object; but as the importance of a required course in Political Economy was discussed at some length in these columns last year, we will not revive the subject, but we feel sure that all will regret the giving up of a study at once so useful and necessary...
...atmosphere of its own; wind and storm have played their pranks with its aged walls for many a year, but it has stood them bravely. Let us hope that its fortunes escape the devastating hand of improvement and survive to see an age when it may look for sure protection and respect...
...protest against this innovation, which will turn our gay and lively College into a graveyard with walking tombstones. Pray do not let the spirit of jovial good-fellowship die out within us. To be sure, women and old fogies apply harsh names to these innocent pastimes of youth; but what of that? Let us stand up like men against the tyranny of Mrs. Grundy. Without these jollifications life now would be doleful, and in the future no pleasant memories of college days would throng around...
...excellence of the rendering by the professor, it cannot be said; but it was greatly to the credit of the College that the French readings were so well attended. Although the slight knowledge of Spanish among our students may be alleged as an excuse, yet I am sure that had the easiness of the tongue and the genius and erudition of the translator been known to the many, the hall would have been crowded. To allow ignorance of Spanish to debar one from enjoying Don Quixote was very foolish; for the writer, though ignorant of Spanish previously, with a smack...