Word: uncertained
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Cornell offered a little spring instruction in rugby, the sport could be used on the fall schedule instead of touch football. Most intramural athletes would prefer to play a real game, even an unfamiliar one, than one of illegitimate origin and uncertain rules. --Cornell...
...that the Amherst money market is responding well to the bullish forces with a best for the more uncertain in uses, there should be an impetus to the interest in Wall Street already exhibited by the men of the cloth. There have been surer methods of providing for the daily bread, but none have transcended mediocrity with a more ecstatic revelation of the divine afflatus than glows beneath the raftered roof of the chapel in the Berkshires...
...first, it is true, the play went slowly, coolly. An uncertain audience at the Hollis had to get acclimated to these newcomers from Shakespeare-land, and the players felt this coolness, and took their own time about setting in motion the action of the play. Only at one other time, during the period of mutual misunderstandings, accusations, and challenges, and the final slow denouement of Act V, did the swift flame of the action flicker a little; and the blame for this lapse can as well be laid at the door of the playwright Will Shakespeare, as it can upon...
...does the faculty relish this task. They are forced to expend considerable time and energy simply to give the dean's office a rather uncertain scale of the quality: of their students...
Lord Jeff, 1922 edition, found himself in considerable not water when he tried to solve the problem of the younger generation by setting fire to the Freshmen. By a ruling of the faculty he was deprived of all cuts for the rest of the year and told in no uncertain terms that the word "small fry" is purely figurative. Somewhat taken aback he took refuge in communistic methods. Yesterday, however, in a saner moment, these were discarded for the better part of valour, which, as everyone knows, is discretion. As a result, it is heartwarming to hear that the faculty...