Word: hopefulness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...behooves Seventy-eight, if she wishes to keep up this time-honored custom of our fathers, to take warning. Already there is noticeable among men who hold a prominent position, both in the class and in the Faculty, an attempt to chill all ardor on this subject, with the hope that, being an unnecessary if not childish practice, unworthy of the consideration of men of mature judgment, Class Day, once the brightest day in the student's calendar, will eventually...
...early and convenient a date. We must also notice the opportunity which has been afforded for changes in the Tabular View, which must be appreciated by those who have laid out a regular plan of study for their college course. In conclusion, it may not be amiss to hope that the expectations of the Junior class may be fulfilled in regard to voluntary recitations for next year...
...think that the Athletic Association is to be congratulated on having run on so far into the year without any intimation of an assessment. Notwithstanding the difficulties in holding the Summer Meeting at Beacon Park, we understand that the entry-book is well filled; and we hope to see a large and fashionable attendance of our fair friends at the Park, where they will find better accommodation than we could have offered them on Jarvis. We trust the result of the meeting may show, in spite of the Transcript, that the youth of Harvard, the flower of the country...
...apology to the Courant. Next time it appears to make a blunder, we shall understand that it is "roughing" the Record. We had no intentions of interfering in a family quarrel, - that is, a family joke. We hope the Courant's ungallant remarks on "wanton exhibitions of feminine levity and frivolity" (i. e. young ladies' talking in the Library) are also a joke but they sound rather too serious to be quite polite...
...hope that the new editors of the Era will heed the warning contained in the title to the valedictory of the outgoing board, - "Morituri Salutamus...