Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their pupils, have likewise gained strong attachment for the University. Assigned by their Government to an unexpected post in this country, among a people whose language one or two of them did not even know, they undertook the training of the Corps with the greatest eagerness. We may hope that their endeavor has not been wholly, nor in the least part, in vain...
...announcement that Princeton's training camp is to receive half-official recognition by the War Department is pleasing to the University. The system planned there in many ways is similar to the system of training planned here. It is not too audacious to hope that since one camp has been recognized, the other will be likewise...
...with cheerful confidence hope, although there are always dismal doubts, that the class at its first reunion next year will assemble in yet larger force, with the fourth which will be absent next Tuesday also present...
...next year are of a somewhat larger and more ambitious scope. We have prevented to the best of our ability our boys from enlisting until they are of age. There will be, therefore, next year about 50 men who will still want naval training. Added to this number we hope that there will be many Freshmen. We, therefore, plan first to obtain a boat of sufficient size to enable us to go to sea in the afternoon and teach the boys the practical side of navigation...
That was two days before war. Lightning, chained or free, strikes quick. This is sixty days after war. The thunder of our prowess is still echoing, although no lightning has demolished Germany. Let us hope, for the sake of humor, that before the chronicle runs into the 200th day, it may be recorded that "American arms have met the German arms in honorable combat, and driven them victoriously back...