Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Through this memorial the subscribers hope to make an additional link between France and the United States, and to give an expression of the intellectual debt which this country owes to France...
...hope that this editorial is only the first of a series waging a campaign for the new education in schools and colleges. We eagerly look forward for instance to a damnation of higher mathematics. It is such a useless study. What chance will a Wall Street clerk ever have of applying his calculus to his life-work? And then, too, you know it is so dreadfully difficult. Men sometimes spend thirty consecutive minutes pondering over a lot of mysterious signs and symbols--really, it is pitiful...
...Nichols and a wealth of new material coming up from the 1919 squad, Yale has the best balanced and most formidable track team in a dozen years. In fact, the strength of the team is such that the Elis expect to defeat both Princeton and the University, and hope to win the intercollegiates. Overton and Farwell, the all-round stars of the team, are in record breaking form in the distance runs and the hurdles. In the last two big indoor meets, Overton has broken world's records in the mile and in the 1,000-yard events, while Farwell...
...prone to joke about the so-called "affectation" of the New Englander's speech, but I believe our remarks are made only in fun, and Mr. Norton does not mean to criticize. We realize that our speech is somewhat flat and our voices possibly raucous at times, and we hope that your possible irritation will give way to your good sense so that you may retaliate with a little good natured...
...fanatics have so spoken! Last evening Professor Ellery C. Stowell of Columbia University, speaking at the Labor Temple, New York City, said in his address: "The opinion of the people in this country as to the course of its rulers makes itself felt, and in the present instance I hope and believe that it is going to make itself felt in favor of war." Is this the sort of "political doctrine" which Columbia is about to "investigate," or does it confine its investigations purely to anti-war speeches? A short while ago Count Tolstoi, the son of the world famous...