Word: whether
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work of collecting money to reimburse the treasury of the Harvard Athletic Association has been going on for some time. The receipts are far from satisfactory. Unless the members of the University respond more generously to the solicitations of the collectors, it is doubtful whether a training table can be started this year. If one is started it will not be until late in the season...
...after two years of intercollegiate debating. The record as it stands is such as to cause every man in the university who has at heart the good of Princeton a great deal of regret and serious thought. What the cause of the present state of affairs may be or whether or not there is any cause, we would not attempt to say without further deliberation and investigation, but we leave this question to the faculty, undergraduates, and alumni for solution. The fact forces itself disagreeably to our attention that Princeton has not taken the place which those...
...photographs of the skies at differet times have been taken. As soon as a star is noticed with hydrogen lines on its spectrum, a reference is immediately made to the photpraphs made in that region where the star is found. From these different photographs it can be learned whether the star is always of the same brightness. This method leads to the discovery of more variable stars here than in any other place, as the Harvard Observatory is the only one which uses this system. The ordinary way of finding variable stars is by watching each night...
...last evening on Keats' life and poetical work. He took up especially three points: first, the statement so often made, with Shelley for authority, that Keats was "a Greek"; second, the popular impression that Keats was unmanly and effeminate; and third, the doubt expressed by some critics as to whether Keats would have advanced greatly in his art. Keats was in certain ways a Greek in spirit but undoubtedly a romantic in form. As to his weakness, Blackwood's "Johnny Keats," the stanza in Don Juan, and even Shelley's Adonais have after their varying fashions given the world...
...order to clear up any confusion that may exist, it will be well to say a word concerning the present system of arranging for the dinner. In the first place every student who entered the University in the fall of 1893, whether in the Scientific School or the College, and every student who has since joined the class, except those who entered with a higher class, is at liberty to attend the dinner...