Word: surer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thus described, in the moment of his hard-earned victory (N. Y. Times, July 16): 'He hurried down the lane to the string, which he reached, pale and exhausted, unable to stand still, and finally staggered into friendly arms outstretched to receive him.' Pitiful! very pitiful! Could any surer mode be invented of making a youth inevitably second-rate in mental, not to say moral, force, all the rest of his life? . . . . The new exercises for undergraduates serve to increase their natural centrifugal tendency to fly away from college authority, and also to barbarize their tastes and habits. College-rows...
...glad to learn that the Directors of the Reading-Room are taking steps which look toward a surer foundation for the success of one of the best institutions within our University. It is generally known that during the years previous to this a large debt for gas was contracted; and now that the directors see their way clearly towards a debtless year of our own, it is proposed to pay off this debt of other years that has long hampered the actions of the association. To this end subscriptions are being tendered by the able and the willing, and through...
...complained of the milk and bread, and has recounted the warm dishes furnished for breakfast; but with all due respect for our contemporary, we are not able to agree with its opinion. This, however, is only another proof that there is no accounting for tastes, and that some surer method must be devised of ascertaining what changes the members of the association desire than the publication of individual complaints. It would not seem very difficult to have a larger variety at each meal, and there are some additions that might be made, such as more salt-cellars, water-pitchers...
...Jupiter Pluvius still makes out-door plans uncertain, we are forcibly reminded that Spring has really come. The shop windows are placarded with "Spring Openings," several vernal poems have been offered for publication, and groups of Freshmen can be seen playing marbles and pitch-penny. But to us surer and more important signs are the small crowd with cricket and base-ball bats, that move toward Jarvis daily after dinner, and the smaller crowd that direct their steps toward the boat-houses just before supper...
Those of us who think must therefore admit that Harvard leans towards infidelity. The Professors are much to blame for this. True, they do not directly inculcate bad principles. They are too wily to do that. They prefer to accomplish their end, in a safer and surer way, by the subtle teaching of manners and acts. Among the more abandoned students many a conspiracy is hatched; in cold blood they often settle on the best plan of working the religious ruin of some fellow-student, and ruthlessly execute it. All of us are familiar with the method of a young...