Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...know that such a condition continues to exist. How many of us have been advised to take certain courses "because of the personality of the instructor. Professor -- is a great man and you ought to know him." But how many times in such a case do we ever approach closer than the restrictions of the lecture hall allow? The superiority of the larger universities is due to the fact that their greater resources enable them to obtain men who are at once efficient teachers and intellectual leaders. Seldom, however, do we make use of this advantage which Harvard possesses...
...statement has appeared in certain of the Boston newspapers to the effect that the students at Randall Hall were being served skimmed milk. Having looked into the matter I am able to state that such reports are not founded on fact. C. C. LITTLE, Secretary to the Corporation, member of the Dining Council Appointed by the Corporation...
...rather gross and apparent misstatement of fact he leads us to suppose that the CRIMSON wantonly holds back expressions of adverse criticism in order to serve its own ends. E. W. Westcott states it as a fact that the reason why the "editor-in-charge" refused to print a certain communication by H. J. Seligmann was because, on the editor's admission, "the CRIMSON wanted 'to get back at the writer in the Transcript and did not care for discussion of the general principle.'" That the president of the CRIMSON should make such an admission even though impelled by such...
...better criticism of our life could hardly be made. It is useless to attempt to prove that only a certain few at the head of undergraduate affairs are the busy ones. We are all, with only a few exceptions, overcrowded with more or less useless "interests and activities," a phase which strangely enough never seems to include intellectual development. And the remedy will only come when we realize that there is more to be got from a College course than will result from the scattered existence which most of us now lead at Cambridge...
...proved by the presence of this article in its columns. Indeed there is an air of playful fisticuffs about the Monthly's assault that is not likely to arouse resentment. So that the CRIMSON can at least adopt a flattering metaphor, and admit the resemblance of its critics "to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them...