Word: sure
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...practical benefits to business and professional men, we think such an opportunity for the study of elementary law might be afforded us during the undergraduate course, and we are sure it would be a most popular as well as most profitable elective...
...cause. Indeed, many late actions of the College are inconsistent with any other course. Last summer our President entertained in Memorial Hall itself a company which had served in the Confederate service, and no "builder" censured him; this same company we students cheered in the yard, and I am sure no one of us is ashamed of so doing. Thus have we acted towards the Southern living, and we have shown our esteem too for the Southern dead. The College has received, officially acknowledged, and hung in Memorial Hall a photograph of the monument to the Confederate soldiers at Charleston...
...author inspires us with hopes of a still greater reward. He says that if we thus introduce ourselves to the notice of the young ladies in question, it cannot fail to challenge their admiration, while their gratitude may be relied on to an unlimited extent." Is the author sure that he is not promising more for our Wellesley sisters than they are prepared to accord...
...LADY (who sleeps badly). Now, Mary, if I should want to light my candle, are the matches there? MARY. Yes, ma'am, there's wan. OLD LADY. One! What if it misses fire or won't light? MARY. O, niver a fear, ma'am. Sure I tried it. - Chronicle...
...then be the same as before; each club would have its captain, its two barges, and its two crews, and the cause of the present dissatisfaction among members of clubs not in any crew would be removed. If the single and double sculls were common property, one could be sure of finding a boat in, or, at the worst, of having to wait only a few minutes before one of the number would be returned. A Holworthy man could not then complain that he was paying fifteen dollars for one fourth the accommodations given to a Holyoke member; the trouble...