Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feel slightly out of place in writing to you on the following subject at this time, while your columns are filled with those affairs of war that are absorbing all interest. But I also feel that such a letter as this of mine should be written, and I hope that you will find room for it in your paper...
...suppose that many will heed such a letter as this--no past experience of others lead me to such a hope. I simply feel that there should at least be one voice raised from Harvard which has had for so long the standards of gentlemen as its standard, decrying the patronage and open approval of such a place as this, and showing that the evils which have been evidenced by this patronage to be existing in the country, have not passed unnoticed over the heads of those whose duty it will some day be to remedy them. CHRISTOPHER LA FARGE...
...hope that those men who drill in Massachusetts Hall now will realize that the Revolutionary soldiers were quartered there for one cause, the saving of their country, and that the men of 1917 are in the service of the same country at another time of national danger...
...against art to write a romance or construct a play upon the impossible physical resemblance of two men. Only you must get away with it. A certain William Shakespeare, as Professor Baker would say, "got away with it," to a remarkable degree in "Twelfth Night," and so did Anthony Hope in that classic melodrama, "The Prisoner of Zenda." And so did Mrs. Thurston, the original author of "The Masquerader." But Mr. Booth refused to concede all the honors to his feminine collaborator. So he brings the play up to date, adds some rather hollow gabble about munitions, German spies, bleeding...
...final scheme for a constructive solution has been advanced. One policy alone seems fairly definite in the minds of the reformers, that the clubs as self-electing close corporations shall be abolished, and a thoroughly democratic system substituted in their place. In this way they hope to establish a wider basis for fellowship, where all men will meet on an equal basis, regardless of their social position and personal characteristics and build up a more wholesome social structure...