Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WERE it commonly known that sitting on college fences is what is technically called a "Yale trick," there is no doubt the recently developed fence-roosting mania would cease to find favor in the sight of all respectable undergraduates...
Well, I had got on very well without advice through my Freshman year up to the time when the Elective Pamphlet came out, but then I was plunged in doubt as to what to take. It would have been easier if I had any tastes, but beyond ice-cream and soda, I don't think I have...
...because of its literary exercises, or because of its class-tree exercises, but because of the social enjoyment which the day affords, - in a word, the spreads and the dancing are Class Day. Whether there will be spreads and dancing this year still remains to be seen; but we doubt not that hereafter there will be no public exercises, and that the day will be devoted entirely to social enjoyment. Nor is the change to be regretted, since under the new system both host and guest would take an active part in the festivities; and, what is of more consequence...
...suggest, however, that it is not universally acknowledged that the line "Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," is by Shakespeare. Some persons contend that it is the first line of a lost work, "The Traveller," by an obscure poet named Goldsmith. We are in perfect sympathy with the Beacon, and only doubt whether it praises sufficiently the institution which it represents. It is absurd for the Argus to speak of local pride and petty conceit. When a great and famous University, situated within a stone's toss of Boston Common, and having a magnificent view of the State House, enjoying the inestimable...
...hexameter, nor comam end one; moreover, cutting off a diphthong between the two short syllables of a dactyl is very unclassical. Of line seventh we can make nothing at all. The quantities run ____V ____V ____V ____VV ____, which no human power can get into a verse. But we strongly doubt if the translator knew that the em in falcem would go out before et, since line eight can only be scanned at all by keeping am in maturam before ab. In the same line, quo, though not positively wrong, should be rather...