Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stood at present placed the students in a puerile light, that they were wrong in not providing for some future action, that a system of espionage did exist in the college, and that he thought the majority of younger Alumni believed it. As it stands at present it is uncertain whether any further action will be taken...
...extreme difficulty of making out the lists in an impartial manner can readily be imagined. The upper and lower members of the class were not so difficult to arrange, but the claims of the members who occupied a middle position, and they were in the majority, were uncertain and hard to settle satisfactorily...
...Harvard course. This ignorance, the establishing of fitting schools whose tendency is toward Harvard, is rapidly dispelling. Already in many cities a certain school is known as a Harvard school, and although it prepares men for other colleges, yet it brings much influence to bear upon the uncertain and directs them toward Cambridge. These schools ought to be encouraged by the university, and if need be, come under the personal supervision of the overseers. Let but three or four such schools be established, say one at New York, another at Philadelphia, one at Chicago, and another at New Orleans...
...resolved, "That in future the fiscal year of the Co-operative Society begin one week before the academic year." Heretofore the fiscal year has begun in February. This has brought about complications in the matter of fees, made it uncertain at the beginning of the fiscal year what would be the probable membership, and closed the business of the society, not in July, when business actually ceased, but in the middle of the college year. If the fiscal year begins with the academic year, these difficulties may be removed. There are at present two fees; by the proposed change there...
...rejection by the railroad commissioners of the original layout of the Hartford and Harlem railroad through the western part of the city, two amended routes have been surveyed and mapped by the company's engineers. Neither has been formally approved by the company, however, so that it is uncertain which the commissioners will be asked to approve. One of the routes has already been described. Within the limits of New Haven it runs mostly on the east side of West river, although avoiding the thickly settled portion of the western district whose residents rose up in such unanimous and determined...