Word: certain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first two weeks. After the first cut batting practice began, as well as fielding to first base. G. Ware '08 has assisted Coach Moss in handling the squad, and under their direction a very decided improvement has been made. Practice in sliding bases has been given on certain days in order to break the regular routine...
...without satisfying it, the impression made upon the reader formulates itself in the hearty wish that the contributors would write in English instead of in dialect. Whether dialect writing is of any philological value may well be questioned; that the reading of dialect is tiresome to a degree is certain. The same amount of labor and skill wasted upon such productions would be better bestowed on efforts to acquire mastery of a true English style and in developing powers of invention. Few are those who can overcome the handicap of dialect and produce a story worthy of the name...
...Windermere Hours" has a certain charm, although the mingling of personal pronouns jars upon the ear. It is simple, and that is a quality too little thought of by young writers, apt to imagine that the more complex their sentences and the more far-fetched their comparisons the more artistic their work. The writer of the study on Rideout offends in this way: he has one sentence, if not more, that challenges the understanding and defeats...
...athlete constantly training will make sure that his record at the office is satisfactory. His absences from Cambridge are undoubtedly undesirable from a Faculty standpoint, but as is shown by the establishment of the Dean's List a man who is doing good work should be given a certain amount of discretion in the matter of "cuts...
...small per cent of the whole sum needed could be raised in this way, but even so, the amount collected would indicate that the students keenly realized the need of a new building, and possibly graduates who contemplated making some donation to the University would be guided to a certain extent by the wished of the undergraduates...