Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wearing of these vestments is a custom, resembling in its dubious antiquity, those proud and hallowed traditions of the English universities. It is altogether fitting that the Senior class be properly set apart before those deep and mysterious rites of graduation. It is the best Senior class we have! As such, let them be fittingly attired...
...professor of electrical engineering, are to give series of Lowell Institute lectures beginning next Monday. Professor Ferguson's talks will be on "Greece--the Forerunner of Europe," and are divided into the following groups: 1. The Great Analogy. 2. Greek and Modern Nationalism. 3. The Difficult and Dubious Domain of Economics. 4. Democracy and the Social Question. 5. The Eastern Question. 6. Small Nations and Large States. 7. Autocracy versus Federalism in the Balkans. 8. The Roman Hegemony. Liberty in its Relation to Culture...
Unfortunately, all nations are not to be represented. German Socialists will be there. Austrian and Bulgarian and Turkish Socialists will be there. Also, most pampered of all delegations, Russian Socialists will be there, sent by the people's committee, whose opinions are somewhat dubious. There they will be greeted by their German and Austrian and Bulgarian and Turkish brothers-in-labor, although enemies-in-arms, and fraternize with them in the common love of that spirit of equality which transcends mere national politics. We might well send representatives from our own I. W. W. to add to the international gathering...
...word as to the very adequate acting. It was a pleasure to see that calented English actor, Mr. Louis Calvert, even in the plodding role of the eternal English butler. Miss Haidee Wright's beautiful voice was heard in the dubious part of Eve Chilcote. With the exception of the stars, it is the only part in the play which affords the slightest chance of human characterization. Mr. Handy sides and Mr. Robertson hardly succeed in conveying a proper illusion as English statesmen. Mr. Guy Bates Post in the leading role was always interesting and sometimes admirable...
...spring football practice cannot be accounted for by the fact that some players are engaged in other sports. When less than enough men for three elevens report on the field, in comparison with more than a hundred who participated in the practice at Princeton, the situation is decidedly dubious. The prospects in football were made bright a short time ago when the services of Percy Haughton were assured as head coach. But a team cannot be made by coaching alone. Some amount of spirit is necessary on the part of the players as well. Although the records of football...