Word: surely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dual meet will be run against Technology on the Belmont course Saturday afternoon, October 27 at 3 o'clock. Probably each team will be limited to 12 men, the first five to finish on each side counting in the score. The only other race which the University harriers are sure to run will be against the Dorchester Club on November 3 or 10. The place of this meet has not yet been decided...
...unsympathetic your roommate appears when he sees the bargain! Yet sure enough, to smoke the third layer you must wear a gas mask, while the tailor explains that you have just enough cloth for a nice vest...
...gentle art of right facing. Like Germany, we must expand and like her we have no place to go. Somebody will have to think and do it thoroughly to solve the problem. Unless we find an armory in town or build one here the winter drill is sure to be a dismal failure and a glaring waste of time. It has been suggested to take Brattle Hall and drill there, but this is absurd; no company of one hundred men can manoeuvre there. Where one hundred men can dance, one hundred cannot drill. The problem still unsolved remains...
Overconfidence has ruined very many fine plans. As in football, so in war, the side which becomes too sure of itself, or too contemptuous of its foe, is due for a fall. The natural result or our six months in the conflict, without appreciable casualties, without seeing the power of the enemy, and without the stimulating influence of a Zeppelin raid, is to create a feeling that we have an easy path before us. Newspapers have enlarged this misconception. Stories of the remarkable strides being made by our troops, of compliments paid to them, and of German prisoners' surprise...
...sure his victory may not be the capture of a trench, but perchance this nation may be greater for his patience...