Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...elevate the schools, but only very gradually can this be done, for, according to Mill "reform even of governments and churches is not so slow as that of schools." - The only means to this end is to increase the difficulties for admission from year to year, and let us hope that President Eliot and his colleagues may support their new system in this radical...
...examinations. We will only say that we think that the members of the faculty, or those who have had the matter in charge, by taking more care in future to see that papers are put in the library, will do no slight favor to students of the college. We hope that every one of the recent examinations will be represented on the library shelves...
...regard to the character of the paper for the ensuing term we will only say that we shall do our best to make the CRIMSON as truly a Harvard newspaper as possible. Special endeavors will be made to have reports of sports and games complete and accurate. We hope that the college at large will give us their hearty co-operation, and we shall welcome communications from all members of the university. It is the desire of the CRIMSON to represent as far as possible the sentiment of the college...
...handles, and, as the pin is not securely fastened, the handle frequently flies off, greatly to the surprise of the man exercising and to the detriment of the apparatus. It is very difficult to replace the pin, and consequently several pieces of apparatus are chronically out of order. We hope the needful repairs will soon be made...
...lives, and a correct conclusion is pretty sure to be reached. Even if we have been really successful in nothing, there must be something in which we have proved more competent than in the rest. Perfect success is not necessarily the criterion. And if there seems to be no hope of that success in the future, if our capacities seem so limited in everything as to promise little hope of advancement in anything, we must do faithfully that which lies nearest us. "Tis not in mortals to command success...