Word: hope
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sometimes discouraged and are tempted to throw up the race because it is so hard, or so monotonous. Let us remember that no great thing can be quickly accomplished and that perhaps the truest test of character is to work hard and well without a hope of reward or approval, and let us be patient and strong in running the race that is set before each...
...directors complain of, aside from that which has been adopted, would have been through the expulsion of members, - a punishment altogether too severe for the offense. As all warnings had failed to accomplish anything there was really nothing to do but that which has been done. We hope, however, that it will not be necessary to adhere permanently to the decision, but that when the members of the association realize that the directors are in earnest in their efforts to preserve order, they will avoid any ungentlemanly conduct in the future...
...most ill advised under these circumstances to sanction by acquiesence the making of public charges which directly impeach the good faith of college men, or if the charges are to be preferred, to select the columns of newspapers as the place to exhibit them. It is therefore the hope of the committee that you will take immediate action upon this communication...
...that Harvard never had an athletic team, each one of whose members was so earnest and conscientious in his work as this year's eleven. Every man, it is said, seemed to take almost as much interest, and feel as much responsibility as if he were the leader. We hope to see the same spirit dominate the other teams. The crew is already at work; in a month more the candidates for the baseball and athletic teams will be called out. But the responsibility of the men who expect to try for those teams does not begin with the period...
...Potentate" claiming supremacy over our civil government: W. E. Gladstone, in Acad, p. 4; Vincent in Forum, XV, p. 263; Encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII, Am. Cath. Quar. Rev., XIX, 777-789. - (4) Directly opposed to the advance of civilization: The U. S. the Pope's "one bright hope for the future...