Word: hope
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is little to be said of the game today with Yale beyond wishing success to our nine. The record of the year scarcely warrants the expectation of victory, yet at times the nine has shown a strength which makes hope very natural. Yale, it is understood, can not put her strongest team in the field, and a united effort might well result in giving the first game of the series to Harvard. The University will demand its best work of the nine this afternoon, and in return will give it the best of good wishes and the whole-hearted...
...appropriate to the occasion when seniors are finally closing their college career, should be dignified and impressive throughout; which the exercises of the past few years have not been. Members of Ninety-three and Ninety-four have expressed dissatisfaction with the way their degrees were conferred, but we hope that Ninety-five will not have the same grounds for complaint...
...Possibly this sounds commonplace and conventionally sermonic. But it is a commonplace which occasionally needs repetition, for one hears now and again from men whose whole lineage is full of Christian saints and whose character is saturated with the Christian prayers, hopes and theologies of their fathers, that Christ and His Church, having done their work, must now give way to the ascendancy of culture and reason and ethics. To repeat the words of James Russell Lowell, they are 'degenerate sons of heroic ancestors, who, having been trained in a society educated in schools, the foundations of which were laid...
During the warm weather those who take their meals at Memorial Hall are likely at times to get food which is not entirely palatable to them. I hope any such will not fail to notify me by complaints put in the box for that purpose in the hall. I do not very often give personal answers to the complaints but invariably look into the merits of all communications addressed to me. I should like also to remind everybody that the best way to obtain better food, is to send back that which is objectionable, with a brief note...
...near its end it would hardly be worth while to think of establishing it for this year; but on the re-opening of college next September, active steps should certainly be taken towards the formation of the 'Yale Musical Club.' We mention it now in the hope that some enterprising individual will develop a plan for such an organization, that can be started when college re-opens...