Word: uncertained
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...flourishing on the Poughkeepsie lawn, what Vassar needs among other things is a School for Men. The Miscellany in bold bad letters advocates the idea with such remarks as "there are many weighty arguments for male suffrage" and "the educational advantages Vassar offers, in addition to no uncertain social prestige, have formerly had geographical limitations." The Vagabond sort of liked the last quotation, though the editorial prose rather impeded, yea, even obscured any true inkling of the subject matter...
...long ago a group of Harvard men bought Beck Hall. The reasons for this purchase, they announced, were largely sentimental. Many graduates hearing of it, hoped that the dormitory, whose future of late years has been uncertain, would, at last, be given a decent burial. But it now appears that the motives of these philanthropists were not altogether unmixed with mercenary considerations. The wraiths of Harvard's great, which supposedly haunt the unplumbed depths of Beck, and for whose memory the purchase was made, have now become a selling point for the owners. They have found, to their disappointment, that...
...cough", he continued, "at first only irritating the throat very slightly, but gradually getting worse with each successive explosion until it has to stop. In the same manner each drop in the market will lead to another low level, and finally, after the general process of weeding out all uncertain securities has been completed, a rise will necessarily follow...
...Bloodgood repeated the offer which Johns Hopkins and all the other great cancer clinics have made: if a doctor is uncertain of an X-ray diagnosis, he may mail the photograph to the clinic. Experts will report the reading to him and not make a charge unless the doctor says that his patient can afford...
...CRIMSON is an attempt to give to the undergraduate body some idea of student feeling toward the courses offered in Harvard College. The faculty is amply represented in the catalogue and the various conferences with instructors that are provided. Unassisted, student feeling never becomes more than an uncertain innuendo that is never sufficiently obvious to be effective...