Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Major Higginson's gift consisted of about twenty acres of land, all on a higher level than the neighboring marsh land. It was given to the university with the hope expressed that it might be used for the present for athletic purposes, but without any reservation whatsoever, except it should be called Soldiers Field, in memory of Major Higginson's comrades in the late...
...pleasure to note the generosity of certain graduates who have started a fund to send the crew to Philadelphia. We hope to see the fund made complete by the subscriptions of present members of the University...
Some verses entitled "Rudyard Kipling," by J. A. Macy is at all events acknowledged imitation, and equally candid treatment would substitute the title "Anthony Hope" for "Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them," which is contributed by R. Clapp. The latter is a brief episode successfully worked up, and the author has succeeded in catching something of Hope's freshness and vigor, which partially atones for lack of originality...
...lies not in a reorganization of our social system, nor in the proposed plan of disintegration into smaller colleges which Mr. Corbin, after a year or two at Oxford, advocates strongly, but rather in a greater unity and a broader sympathy among all undergraduates, inspired not alone by the hope of athletic success, but also by an interest in one another and in the common institution and its traditions...
...that the result would be extremely close, and the impression was that Harvard was the more probable victor. Many of the Yale men, also, surpassed their own previous records, as was particularly the case with Merwin in the high jump. Thus the showing of the team gives far greater hope of success in the intercollegiate games than has been heretofore entertained. Great satisfaction was also caused by Yale's victory over Brown in baseball on the same...