Word: sure
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thing in it is a "Change of Costume," by R. F. Maynard, and although the plot has seen better days; it is worked up very simply and naturally to the only possible conclusion. A sonnet, "Spiritus Victus Amore," is the kind of a poem one of which is almost sure to turn up in every number; it reads along smoothly enough and does not mean anything in particular. G. H. Scull contributes a rather vivid sketch of life on the Banks suggested perhaps by Kipling's serial. The "Point of View" is a fairly interesting rather too cleverly written monologue...
...however, an old failing of Harvard men and the teams representing them to be too sure of success in the important contests and for this very reason to fail to do all that they are capable of. It is to be hoped that this will remain an old failing and that the University will not be guilty of it again. Self-reliance is a good quality until it leads to carelessness. If the ability of the crew to learn is only as great as that of Mr. Lehmann to teach and if the rest of us are not afflicted with...
...nines are entered the present plan of arranging a schedule is to divide these into four squads of four each, in which every nine will play every other. Then the four winners of these divisions will all play each other for the championship. By this method each team is sure of playing at least three games, which is the reason that it was chosen, rather than the usual tournament plan, where by one defeat puts a man out of the race. If this scheme is adopted, four diamonds will be laid out on Soldiers Field, so that four games...
...some years he has made affairs in the East a subject of the most careful study and investigation, and probably it is safe to say that few men today are so well able to deal with the complicated problem. Dr. Coolidge is, moreover, an interesting speaker, and will be sure of a large and interested audience...
...which of the schemes proposed for this end is the best, we shall not undertake to say. But it is the plain duty of the debating authorities of the University to take this matter carefully in hand and make sure that before the next debate, by some means or other, this matter of questions is satisfactorily regulated...