Word: sure
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...things are made for ganders, sure...
...sure it is, they had their...
...testing the respective merits of the two Nines. Leaving out of the question the advantage gained by the club on whose grounds the single game is played, there are many benefits which accrue to each college from a series. By this plan, the friends of each college are sure to see one of the games played on their own grounds, and so, of course, more interest is excited; besides, a more extended intercourse between the members of the two colleges is thereby promoted, and this surely ought to have a good effect in turning the spirit of bitter enmity, which...
...scholarships already established in our colleges, few of the many charitable institutions throughout the land, the managers of which need the best judgment in deciding between many applicants for assistance, fail to accomplish their object through a faulty administration. If the millionnaire will provide the means, safe and sure ways will be found...
...their several departments; but it can never be said of any one of them whether, under a different kind of undergraduate discipline, his mental faculties might not have received a higher cultivation, thus rendering him capable of greater advancement in after life. The Intercollegiate Scholarship will not be a sure test. It will not follow that the system of the college sending the winning candidate in any particular year is all right, and that the others are all wrong; but if the prize is taken for many successive years by the same college, or by several whose modes of instruction...