Word: hopefulness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...prayers. He tells us of one case where the prayer-meeting actually broke up after only two prayers! and of another "in which the speaker made a long argument for conversion when every one of his hearers had already been converted and was an active Christian." Let us hope that these glaring abuses will be done away with in future...
...sometimes happen, three or four examinations in two days, are more than a student can pass with credit or even justice to himself. One hour of exhausting writing would, indeed, be avoided in each examination, but all the other work which an examination brings would remain substantially undiminished. We hope that these facts will be borne in mind when the final decision is made about the mid year examinations...
...then let's hope we 'll drop our pride...
...faith, our hope, shall leave us never...
...desire to make full use of the peculiar advantages of a college course, and an activity and enthusiasm directly opposed to the lamented Harvard indifference. We are, therefore, pleased to notice the prosperous beginning of the Finance Club and the renewed activity of the Philosophical Club; and we hope to hear again of the Historical Society so much talked about last year. The long existence and the constant activity and success of the Natural History Society show the possibilities of any of these new societies when skilfully managed. Such societies have generally died because either the immediate members avoided assuming...