Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubt many of the students, especially members of the entering class wondered by what right the faculty sent orders to various boarding and lodging house keepers in town Monday night forbidding the holding of punches and other convivial parties. As we do not understand that boarding house keepers are obliged to take out a license from the city for so being, it is presumed that the faculty exerted their power through having the right to say in what places students shall lodge, or what is equivalent, shall not lodge. In this way great moral suasion can be used...
...opening in promise, has closed with defeat. Last year our nine slowly fought its way to the front until it stood even with the Blue; then we staked everything on the memorable "tie game" at New York-and lost. This year the championship is ours, beyond all uncertainty and doubt. Let us appreciate our good fortune, then, at its true value, and feel fitting gratitude to Captain Winslow and his nine, by whose faithful and untiring work the honor that has now become ours has been...
...over the Yale boat Halcyon, in 1852, up to our defeat by Yale at New London last spring. The development of the rowing interest in American colleges is traced, and the present methods of training and racing are fully described. There can be but little doubt that Outing will be in demand this month at Harvard...
...educational success of the Harvard 'Annex' is now beyond all doubt, and its growth and progress make a public appeal in its behalf necessary. Not only has it justified the confidence of its friends, but it approves itself also more and more to those who were at first inclined to distrust it. The courses of study as well as the instruction and the examinations are substantially the same as those of Harvard College and, thanks to our professors and students, the standard of work has been admirably sustained throughout. As a result of this, the practical aims of the enterprise...
...Yale News speaks thus of the Princeton game: "The game resulted in a sad defeat for us, and one long to be remembered. There is no doubt but that a winning game would have been played had the nine been better supported. Many times have our teams been inspired with Yale's enthusiasm to win glorious victories. Harvard sent two hundred and Princeton over a hundred men to eneourage their representatives, while less than twenty Yale men went to support our nine...