Word: whether
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...come so near gracing the gubernatorial chair!) The other Overseers were elected by the Legislature. Any one who will look over the list of Overseers previous to 1866 will find some names which he would never associate with an institution of learning, - names of men whose opinions as to whether Logic should be substituted in the place of some of the Freshman Mathematics would be of far less value than their surmises as to how this or that caucus would probably vote. We may be thankful that a more rational plan has been adopted, and that the governors...
...come a time when at some election every graduate will desire to cast his vote. Suppose, for example, that James Freeman Clarke and Colonel Higginson, who are so anxious to introduce co-education into the College, should make this question an issue. In this case most of us, whether we lived near or far, would desire to avail ourselves of our privilege of voting, and some, in all likelihood, who could not make it possible to be in Cambridge...
...that their days of power are numbered, - that the outsiders have mustered this year, and borne off in triumph the offices which the poor old societies thought were theirs by right. If this is true, it is possible that the popularity of the societies may follow their prestige. However, whether this occurs or not, you had better join one. If it does nothing more, it will serve as a bond of friendship between yourself and all the other members, past and present...
Here at once we see the result of special attention to our language. No superficial student could have written this sentence, and we even doubt whether those who have not had the advantage of special instruction in English at Neophogen College will fully understand it. We humbly acknowledge that we do not grasp the meaning in the words, "the whirlpool of commotion in the files of the nation"; but when the editors go on to say of the College Pen: "From its incipiency we have regarded it as one of the most important features of the school," we are able...
...prepared, with a seal bearing the device of a crimson flag floating from the North Pole, we have no fears that members more than enough would hasten to join the H. N. P. D. A., Harvard North Pole Discovery Association. The doubt might be raised, to be sure, whether the ardor of the sledgers would not cool by the time they reached the region of the tenth parallel, but in that case we should still have the shingles. Let some enthusiast take the matter in hand...