Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Looking at the matter from a Harvard point at view, we confess to a sincere hope that no such considerations will lead to change in our present coaching system. It must be admitted that the professional system has its disadvantages but so has the graduate, and we should oppose any changes that would lay us open to further adverse criticism for following a vacillating polley in our athletics. Last year Coach Pieper and Captain Dexter found no difficulty with conflict of responsibility. The system proved satisfactory: so let us stand...
...wish him a happy return home. We were very glad when he came. We are sorry that he has to go away, but we shall hope be will come again...
...that their organization should be much broader, and that the social aspect should be subordinated to the encouragement of study of the literature and language of their country. Baseball games furnish, one side of their activity, but there is the more serious side which is only periodically realized. We hope that the ambition of these societies will turn toward the direction which is the real cause of their foundation...
Infinitely more humiliating is the permanent disappearance of books from the shelves of our libraries. We hope that some outsider is responsible for these thefts, but the continuance of these losses points to some unworthy member or members of the University. No one who has any sense of loyalty to the University should hesitate to report any information which would lead to the discovery of the guilty parties, for the sooner an example is made of some flagrant offender, the better it will be for the Library and for the great majority who use it legitimately...
...accordance with Professor Francke's suggestion, we hope that Professor Clemen's last few days at Harvard will be peculiarly pleasant. He has devoted to our interests a half-year of untiring work, and for that reason, even more than for his position as Germany's representative in the annual interchange of professors, he deserves our heartiest admiration. How can we show this better than by attending the last lectures which he will deliver before this University-at least in his present capacity? We thus qualify this statement because we hope that the representatives of the German universities will...