Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual report, President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia, points out the need for intelligent giving for educational purposes. He deplores the habit which too many well-intentioned donors have of locking up their bequests in certain specified projects. "What the university most needs", he says, "is gifts which will aid it in its doing better work which it has already undertaken, and not gifts which compel it to assume new obligations that in turn make an additional drain on its already over-taxed resources...
This would no doubt seem very strange doctrine to many prospective benefactors of Harvard College today; and it is certain that it would have seemed incredible to the early donors. To look upon a gift under any circumstances as a burden seems at first thought an anomaly. But gradually it is coming to be recognized more and more clearly that the wisest of all gifts to educational institutions are those given unrestricted and "without strings." Of course, if a man is to choose between perpetuating his name by erecting an expensive mausoleum and by founding in perpetuum a series...
...management of the Teas is under the direction of a standing committee composed of certain officers of the University and their wives, who will receive at each Tea. A number of men from the undergraduate classes and from the undergraduate classes and from the graduate schools will act as ushers...
...Certain features of Saturday's game stamp the 1912 team as the greatest of all Harvard elevens. Not only was it fast and aggressive and ever ready to take advantage of Yale's miscues; not only did it distinguish itself by fighting with as great determination and spirit as has ever been shown by any team; but it played one of the cleanest and most sportsmanlike contests of football ever seen on the gridiron. This victory over the hard-fighting, clean-playing Yale eleven was one of the greatest ever gained by Harvard and to Captain Wendell, who has proved...
...throughout the present season has shown slow but steady growth. From a featureless beginning the team has gradually improved, adding strength, versatility and team work with the evident aim of reaching the height of its development in the last two games. The team's improvement was checked to a certain extent, however, by the omission of the game with Colgate, which was cancelled because of the death of T. W. York...