Word: certainly
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...older Church bodies repeat the ancient Creeds; the more modern are held together by certain forms of doctrine, expressed or tacit or embodied in a name...
...true; or of binding themselves to what they but half believe, or in the imposition of doubtful propositions, which becomes a tyranny. The dogmatic tendency, first growing among the Greeks, and then enforced by the Roman Law, was open to all these dangers, though there is a certain grandeur and reticence in the creeds it produced, especially when contrasted with the dogmatic speculations, often imposed as necessary truth, after the Reformation in Germany. Our age claims not an extension of dogmas, but their simplification and interpretation...
Some time ago the Egyptian Fund Society unearthed in Egypt many valuable papyri, or scrolls, written in the Graeco-Roman age. One hundred and eighteen of these original manuscripts are soon to be sent to this country to be distributed among certain universities and colleges. Pennsylvania will receive 29; Harvard, 19; Yale, 16; Columbia, 16; Princeton, 13; Hamilton College, 5; Vassar College, 4. No decision has been reached as to the particular manuscripts which each will receive, for the allotment is made difficult by the varying value of the different papyri...
...having a rink is to be successful, and there is no reason why it should not be so. The most important factor for its success is to have the plans drawn up by some one who thoroughly understands the construction of an ice-rink. If the students could be certain that the rink was to be an assured thing; that it was going to be large enough and well enough construct-to permit good skating for all its members--there is little doubt but that it would receive the financial support that would be necessary. UNDERGRADUATE...
There is constant and inexcusable fumbling, and a marked inability to recover fumbles of their own or their opponents. There is too much easy-going spirit shown which will mean certain defeat unless eradicated. The team seems to expect some one else to do its brain work for it, and is constantly caught napping on a point of rules. The team has the power to make a creditable showing if it will have some determination to correct its own faults and work together...