Word: sure
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...United States anxiously waiting for news of Knipe's sprained ankle? I say it strikes me with admiring wonder to see how modestly you bear yourselves, and how little you seem to be afflicted with that cephalic enlargement which I should think such excessive praise and publicity would be sure to produce. But, gentlemen, you have more and harder work cut out for you. To the honor and credit of your University, you have shown people that a great match can be won without the intervention of the police or the aid of a coroner. Though you have quitted yourselves...
Continuation of the present secret practice may result in a greater discontent which it would be impossible to check. If it is given up, we are sure that there will be no lack of confidence or support in the future...
...suggestion of President Eliot with reference to raising money for the Library is carried out we feel sure that the graduates and friends of Harvard will not be slow to respond to any appeal that the Corporation may make to them. The Library is, as President Eliot says, the very core of the University, and that this most important department should have its immense capacity for usefulness impaired on account of insufficient quarters can not but cause mortification to every Harvard man who has the good of the University at heart...
...immediate interest or importance; and thirdly, to print personal items of interest to graduates. Incidentally other ends will be accomplished, but those mentioned above will be kept chiefly in view. The closer relations which we hope will result between past and present members of the University will be sure to strengthen the loyalty of both and thus increase Harvard's influence throughout the country...
...essentially nothing more than a scrub organization and then call this a University team and represent Harvard as such, is the height of presumption. There is, as things stand, nothing to prevent their next step - that of placing an "H" upon their sweaters - a proceeding which I feel sure would arouse a protest from the whole college...