Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...petition which has not been carefully considered by those who have tried to think clearly and conscientiously on the topic; no stand has been taken without being thoroughly discussed. Accordingly, we believe that this petition will have the support of the more thoughtful men throughout the college. We furthermore hope that the Overseers and Corporation will receive it as a most sincere and sober presentation of under-graduate opinion...
...paper that is known in and out of Cambridge as the best college paper of its kind is certainly an honor to Harvard, and should have the support of all Harvard men who are able to contribute to it either from their pockets or from their brains. We hope that our sister paper will have no reason to complain of lack of support from the college...
...vain to find desirable activity among the members of the Philosophical Club. The excellence of this department in the college curriculum is well known, and the courses fairly popular; so a course of lectures on modern thought would instruct a large number of appreciative and intelligent students. Let us hope that a representative of some school of philosophy, not favored by our professors may be induced to come to Cambridge...
...quite possibly in some courses it would be well to offer an alternative. We might be allowed either to answer a given set of questions, or to write on some topic covering a large part of the work. Such a plan as Professor Palmer's is, we hope, the small end of the wedge which may split to pieces our present examination and marking system...
Many appeals for money appear annually in our columns. Our readers may have become so accustomed to them that a new one will be without effect. There is, however, one cause for which we willingly ask support, and we hope our words will receive the attention due them. The reading-room still lacks funds with which to meet its actual expenses. This institution seems an exotic, but surely it should find at Harvard its native soil. It is suited to Harvard's needs, and could be made invaluable. These possibilities seem destined never to be realized. Appeal after appeal...