Word: hope
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dissatisfaction of your whole life this, that it is not they that get your most devoted thought and eager action? It is "the meat which perisheth" for which you really labor. It is the prize of the moment that sets you all astir, with desire, with indignation, with hope, with fear. All the time off there in the distance on its shrine shines pure and white the real ultimate desire of your nature, adored and treasured, but too far away and cold to draw to it the tides of passion, love and hate, which spend their force upon the trifles...
...powers have been sent forth freely into the highest regions of their exercise and there have manifested their essential glory; that the completed life of any man or of the world can only come when all these higher regions shall be constantly open, and the energies of human life, hope, expectation, enthusiasm, sympathy, skill, ambition, purified and refined in them by the loftier atmosphere in which they live and work, shall come back to their lower tasks to make them, too, more pure, fine and lofty...
...real reason for success was in the interest shown by the whole class. The number of candidates was unusually large, and they worked with an energy which presaged sure victory. Thus far Ninety-three has shown herself to be an exceptionally good class in most branches of athletics. We hope that we shall not have to take back our words of praise on account of lack of loyal support from the freshmen to their crew...
...thus far has made a record of which the college may be proud, winning six out of seven games, including the first championship match against Haverford. With this record the Harvard team may enter today's game with confidence of making at least a close struggle, and not without hope of winning. The eleven may not contain as many brilliant players as Pennsylvania's, but steady work and team play will more than make up for any handicap in this respect. Such fielding as the team showed in the last Longwood game will keep down the opponent's score; while...
...hope is that the ground will be used for the present as a play-ground for the students, and that in case you should need the ground by and by for other purposes, another play-ground will be given to the students...