Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WHETHER or not it is true that a bond 1,000 cup has been offered for a contest between Yale and Harvard vs. Oxford or Cambridge is quite uncertain, since persons most likely to have knowledge upon the subject profess ignorance, and the rumored author of the proposal is too far away to be interviewed...
THOUGH Winter has "lingered" for an unusually long time in the "lap of Spring," and Jupiter Pluvius still makes out-door plans uncertain, we are forcibly reminded that Spring has really come. The shop windows are placarded with "Spring Openings," several vernal poems have been offered for publication, and groups of Freshmen can be seen playing marbles and pitch-penny. But to us surer and more important signs are the small crowd with cricket and base-ball bats, that move toward Jarvis daily after dinner, and the smaller crowd that direct their steps toward the boat-houses just before supper...
...crew will probably consist of Dana (stroke), Goodwin, Morse, Low, Bacon, Devens (bow). The Junior crew is at present Silsbee (stroke), Wheeler, Good-rich, Harding, Burry, P. Dana (bow); and the Sophomore crew Hunnewell (stroke), Prince, Wet-more, Clark, Appleton, Hartwell (bow). The Freshman crew is still more uncertain; but as there are some ten good candidates for its seats, there is no danger that Captain Hodges will not present a good crew at the race...
...think they were a nuisance. He assented, and remarked that it was surprising how we agreed in most of our opinions. I said no more. Coming home rather late one evening, I was astonished to find my bed occupied. At first I was uncertain whether or no I might not be deceived by an abnormal condition of some of my senses, but as soon as I struck a light he exclaimed, "Ah, Jack, is that you?" I answered in no very pleasant tone that as near as I could recollect it was. He asked, "Which side...
...disbelieve in him would be folly. Are not strange but authentic stories told of his midnight appearances at ill-fated rooms? Have we not watched for him on long and wearisome nights, when - to our relief - he did not attempt to rob us of our coal? His whereabouts are uncertain. Once he entered - through a window - the lower floor of Grays. Once he hid - must it be confessed that he instinctively chose a place of security? - in a Holyoke bath...