Word: hope
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second half. Conclusions of the most gratifying nature with regard to the physical condition of the team were freely drawn at the time. Now, apparently these must be reluctantly abandoned. During the first half of Saturday's game the Harvard men clearly outplayed their opponents; then, when reasonable hope ran high, an unexpected weakness gave Princeton the chance of victory which she was still able to take. This particular disappointment is very trying. Former games have somewhat accustomed Harvard to chagrin at the sight of "star" backs helpless for lack of proper interference; but it is hard to accept...
...this can be remedied, if the strength of their running can be given a fair chance to show itself, a very different outcome of the big games may confidently be expected. Harvard has yet to play the Universities of Pennsylvania and Michigan. It is not too much to hope that the experience of the game with Princeton will prepare the way for victory over these later opponents...
...team will play this year. It will, in a measure, take the place of the Yale game and the enthusiasm which has before marked the game at Springfield must this year be vented in the Princeton game. Today's contest, the first since 1889, will be, as we sincerely hope, the beginning of a long series of games with an old and as her repeated victories show a formidable rival. Of the six games played between 1883 and 1889, Princeton won five. Since the League was ended, however, a settled system of training and coaching has been adopted under which...
...purpose of it is to teach students to read standard novels in such a way as to strengthen their faculties instead of debauching them. The course is popular, as might be expected. It would have rejoiced the heart of the late Professor Boyesen and encouraged that good man to hope that modern education was about to turn out novel readers sufficiently stout of heart and of stern enough discipline to tackle the tales of the American realists...
DEAR SIRS:- Last year some Harvard students kindly undertook to teach classes of Italians at the North End and met with so much success that the directors of this work hope it may be continued this year...