Word: hopefulness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Decidedly we hope before long to see a bicycling club formed at Harvard. Almost all our athletic sports have in some form or other availed themselves of the advantages attached to the club system, and to it is due, to no inconsiderable extent, the great increase of athletics of every description...
...Harvard graduates in Portland propose forming a Harvard Club. We hope that they will carry out this proposition, and that graduates in other cities will follow their example. Such clubs not only bring together present graduates in pleasant reunions, but they also furnish future Harvard men with a means of forming agreeable acquaintances and profitable connections in cities where otherwise they would be entire strangers. The bond between men of the same college is a lasting one, which grows stronger as years go by. Old graduates are interested in the younger men, and all alike watch over the welfare...
...members of the class. The Secretary, this year, does not ask for an elaborate autobiography, with one's descent traced back to Adam, but only for a brief statement of the way in which and the place where the student's life has been passed. We hope that the members of the class will give a tolerably detailed account of the way in which they have spent their college life, the societies they have been members of, their connection with athletics, the rooms they have occupied, and, if space is left, we would suggest that every one should append...
...Weld, as the case may be, so curiously and fantastically distorted by the peculiar quality of glass used at Harvard as irresistibly to distract the attention of our imaginative and speculative mind. As the preservation of our eyesight ought to be one of the chief objects attended to, we hope that the architects will devise some way to avoid the existing evils...
...done. If we are to have new recitation-rooms, they ought to be made with all the improvements that the art of building has attained and that experience can suggest. If our present recitation-rooms are poorly ventilated and lighted, have bare walls and hard benches, let us hope that the new ones will be light, airy, comfortable, and attractive...