Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...attended, and the choice of officers promises well for the support of the Crew this year. The Treasurer stated that the balance in the treasury should not lead men to be backward in their subscriptions, as it was only equivalent to the fund raised by theatricals last year. We hope that the University will be prompt with its subscriptions, and save the officers of the Club the great annoyance and trouble to which they have been previously subjected...
...other, but that is better than being obliged to come at one hour regularly, without any choice of another. This plan has the hearty approval of President Eliot and of Mr. Balch, the steward. It will be brought before the Directors at their first meeting, and we hope to see a trial, at least, given...
...divinity school, can be really non-sectarian. Holding, as we do, that the true position of Harvard is a perfectly unsectarian one, we are convinced that the less connection it has with a Unitarian Divinity School, or any other divinity school, the less will its growth be impeded. We hope that before many years the Divinity School will be separated from Harvard University, and will have no more connection with it than the Episcopal Theological School...
...glad of so easy and lucrative a position. This sort of parental restriction which the Bursar has imposed upon us, in dictating whom we are to employ, is foreign to the whole spirit of the College, and is a remnant of that system of petty annoyance which young men hope to have done with when they leave boarding-school...
...experiment might be made here with similar beneficial results. Heretofore, the principal objection to so doing has been based on the great danger there would be of fire; but we see no reason why this danger should apply to our Library more than to that in Boston. We hope that the additional expense which would be necessary is not at the bottom of the difficulty; but even this ought to be incurred, if it can accomplish an equivalent amount of good. And this has been proved to be the case, not only in public libraries, but in foreign universities, where...