Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Athletic Committee wishes to call the attention of all members of the University to the fact that Mr. Bond has been appointed to teach baseball to all students who may desire his services. it is the hope of the committee that, now that the season for out-of-door sports has come, a very large number of students may make use of this opportunity to learn from a competent teacher the principles of batting, fielding and baserunning. Mr. Bond's time during the whole afternoon, subject of course to his regular appointments, will be devoted to scrub teams...
...Memorial Society to take the matter in hand. The proper observance of Memorial Day clearly comes directly within the sphere of the Society. The Memorial exercises in Sanders Theatre have every year been exceedingly impressive and inspring, and it would be a pity to have them given up. We hope that the Memorial Society will immediately take some steps in the matter...
...truth. In case both branches of this hypotheses are true, we are supposed to gain a certain good by belief. If we avoid the issue, we lose the good. The sceptic says, "Better risk loss of truth than chance of error." But we have no evidence that dupery through hope is worse than dupery through error. A sceptic, by requiring absolute proof before he believes, may cut himself off from all future good. We have a right to believe any hypothesis live enough to tempt the will...
...this debate will determine the supremacy for this year. The confidence of the Yale supporters has been shaken by the victory of Harvard over Princeton, and the New Haven men realize fully that they will have to make the most strenuous efforts it they are to have any hope of success. They are making the most earnest efforts, and the greatest interest is taken in debating by the Yale undergraduates...
...Scotland in the year 1759 and, with the exception of two long visits and one short visit to Edinburgh, spent in the country by far the greater part of his short life of thirty-seven years. He was induced to publish his poems in Kilmarnock in 1786 with the hope of raising money to pay his passage to Jamaica, and the success of an enlarged edition of this volume was such that he was not only the lion of the winter in Edinburgh but found the proceeds of his work amply enough to buy a farm at Ellisland near Dumfries...