Word: hope
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that you, not being satisfied with the present, shall suggest the plan which you yourselves would propose or would be willing to carry out, not even binding yourselves to follow it for this season. We are desirous of your co-operation in our attempt to purify athletics, and we hope you will see fit to give us your suggestion upon that point. Very sincerely yours...
...more discouraging to those on whom the success of the meeting depends, than this backwardness on the part of the men who are counted upon to make up the events. A meagre number of entries certainly do not add to the pleasure of the spectators and we sincerely hope the experiences of past years may not but be repeated...
...will be pleased to notice the series of lectures arranged by the Natural History Society. Professor Searle of the Observatory will deliver the four lectures treating on the elements of Astronomy. While the course in itself will not be very advanced, it will doubtless prove interesting and instructive. We hope it may have the effect of leading to something higher. Every year the college publications have made futile appeals that the study of Astronomy should become a part of the curriculum. If by such lectures as these to be given by Professor Searle, the faculty may be made to feel...
...Advocate is really a good number. The editorials deal with interesting and important subjects, and the matter is well handled. That upon the change in the examination system at Princeton is sound and we must all agree with the author that we have a noble example in Princeton and hope that we are men enough to follow it. The other editorials certainly express college opinion except that on the Harvard-Yale debate which does not express much of anything. The first article of the number is a sketch of the college life of the late Samuel Foster McCleary...
Outing for March is rather above the average. The best thing about the number is the fact that "Harry's Career" comes to its end. We congratulate the editors for getting through with it, and we sincerely hope for their good as well as our own that they will not undertake to publish anything more in the same style. The number opens with an article on steeple chasing in Ireland. It is good reading and the illustrations are decidedly above the Outing standard, One of the best articles of the number is "Track Athletics at Yale" by S. Scoville, Yale...