Word: hope
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...matter of training they feel that much has been accomplished by the adoption of Mr. Lathrop's ideas, and they hope to effect still further reforms by shortening the period of hard football work and by providing for a more gradual introduction to the active work. They recommend also the abandonment of the summer practice...
...cooperative boarding could reduce the amount. The class crews are not self-supporting, and it is only fair to those who do support them that the expenses should be made as low as possible. The cooperative training table would be, we believe, a step in this direction, and we hope it will be seriously considered...
...past years the prospect of a contest with Yale has been the chief incentive to strenuous training, and this incentive is now taken away. As a substitute for it in baseball, the attempt is being made to get two games this spring with the Princeton freshmen. The attempt, we hope, will meet with success. The freshman nine has always been a most valuable means of developing material for the University team, and the latter would be sure to suffer if the ball players in Ninety-eight were discouraged at the beginning of their career. This point of view, however, makes...
Although the interest which attached to the eclipse of the moon last night was a popular rather than a scientific one, yet arrangements for observations were made at the Observatory in the hope that some data of importance might be gathered, possibly the appearance of a satellite or other phenomena. As it was, the sky was so clouded that only a few glimpses of the eclipse in its early stages were gained and from these nothing of any importance was learned...
...past few years in relation to the baseball contests between the two institutions. It is not intended, I understand, to cripple Pennsylvania, nor to be a final cessation of athletic contests between the two universities, but simply to be a suspension of athletic interests for a time in the hope that the present high feeling may be moderated...