Word: uncertaine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Freshmen from Abbott to Knapp should consult their monitor if they are uncertain about their seats in chapel. Some changes have been made in the assignment...
...specially fine cigars they go to HUBBARD, THE CAMBRIDGE APOTHECARY, and tell him so. He then sells them some. He also has for sale excellent banjo strings, and violin strings and bridges for those melodious instruments. He would recommend to those "Upon whose chins hath scarce appeared the uncertain prophecy of a beard," that they buy of him an Engstrom razor, or one of those made by LeCoultre. They are of the finest steel and keenest edge...
...specially fine cigars they go to HUBBARD, THE CAMBRIDGE APOTHECARY, and tell him so. He then sells them some. He also has for sale excellent banjo strings, and violin strings and bridges for those melodious instruments. He would recommend to those "Upon whose chins hath scarce appeared the uncertain prophecy of a beard," that they buy of him an Engstrom razor, or one of those made by LeCoultre. They are of the finest steel and keenest edge...
...remembered that the Dartmouth nine, which was so easily defeated by our team, found no difficulty in winning the game at Hanover yesterday. Yet, in spite of the strong probabilities of success, all over confidence must be suppressed, for, of all games, base-ball is one the most uncertain, as has been shown only too often by the unexpected victories of a weak team over one reputed to be of much greater strength. No better example of this could be asked than the result of the Brown game at Providence last year, when we lost not only the game...
...good word for Harvard's elective system: "The canvass of the senior class at Andover, in regard to college intentions, resulted as follows: Harvard, 10; Yale, 8; Amherst and Princeton, 2 each; Dartmouth, 1, and uncertain...