Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Severance '09, who resigned the captaincy of the crew last month owing to a serious illness, has returned to College and is taking light exercise with a view to getting into condition. It is not certain yet whether the doctors consider his health sufficiently recovered to undergo the strain of regular rowing...
...present time there is a great diversity in the theories of government, each authority having his own views. Professor Lowell closes his book with a warning against thinking that causes which have had certain results under one condition will have the same results under a different condition. Other authorities warn us against treating government as a machine. Government is, however, not only a branch of knowledge, but a branch of action. Since ancient times advance in the theory of government has been made equal to the advance of science. By observing the practical operation of government in foreign countries...
...principal objects of this practice are: to save time in the fall by teaching the men certain fundamentals and rules now; to give the captain and coaches an opportunity to know the men; and to try certain experiments with formations. Therefore it is absolutely essential that all candidates for the team, who are not prevented by participation in other major sports, should report regularly just as if it were the fall season...
...said that among the many salubrities he had met, Mr. Ade was one of the best. Mr. Ade, just before starting for Egypt to look for some new American jokes, attended a dinner in honor of a certain Mr. Biff Hall, lately elected alderman, and was assigned to a seat beside him. At the close of the dinner a great loving-cup was passed around, each man giving an appropriate toast. When it got to Mr. Ade he rose and said "Hall, pull, graft, alderman...
...favor of dribbling. Everybody who plays the game admits that that is more than half the cause of its roughness, and also doubles the difficulty of the referee's duties. By preventing dribbling it would improve the game more than a hundred per cent., and I am pretty certain that it would only take a little pressure to cause the Committee to abolish it. I should think that it would be much simpler, better, and pleasanter to try to better the sport through the Rules Committee than to hurt it by abolishing it; and I hope, at least, that this...