Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the open water of the Charles has at last made it possible for the crews to get afloat once more, we hope that the undergraduates may make it their habit to drop in at the boat-house on pleasant afternoons, and by their presence encourage the men who are working so faithfully to maintain the supremacy of the crimson upon the water. While the crews have been engaged in their winter work in the gymnasium, it has been an easy matter to drop in and take a glance into the rowing room, but now that an inspection...
...numbers equipment, and supplies of all kinds the northern far surpassed the southern army. Nearly the whole of the southern army was American, while one third of the Federals were foreign born. Bounties and high pay aided much in enlisting Union men, while simply love of the "cause" without hope of glory or reward collected the southern troops...
...lived in, he firmly believed that it was better than all that had preceded it. As for the future, his firm faith was that it would be better than the present. Utterances of Carlyle, George Eliot, and many other writers show with what delight his pure hopeful philosophy was welcomed by the intellectual world. He had many traits in common with Wordsworth; but he was a much broader man. He taught the nineteeeth century to hope, and for this lesson we cannot be too thankful...
...belong in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Contests in sparring among gentlemen, to be respectable, must be free from the vulgarity of professionalism, and Harvard men are presumably gentlemen. We do not know by what means the trainers were induced to attend the meeting last Saturday, but we sincerely hope, and we believe the college at large sincerely hopes that no such means will be tried again. If hereafter trainers are induced to attend in their official capacities, the gymnasium authorities should promptly show them to the door...
...waken us than to get us to think upon such matters for ourselves; lectures move us comparatively little, because we hear them passively; but if some such incentive as a prize stirs us thoroughly, we will be very likely to hold our interest even to the future. Accordingly, we hope that attention to the subject of Civil Service Reform can be excited here as it has been in Indiana University...