Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...success of a university does not depend upon its financial resources wholly, but that time and a high standard of instruction are fully as essential. Now that an truly extraordinary opportunity is offered to the West to try the experiment of carrying on a great educational institution, we hope that some attempt will be made to raise the standard of instruction in the West, and that the present complaints against the conduct of western colleges as compared with the government of those in the East will be no longer justly made. We wish the new university every success, and trust...
...been or is respected by Harvard graduates and undergraduates. Indeed, it is expressing Harvard feeling all too mildly when we say that Dr. Peabody is respected; rather is he reverenced and beloved: and a misfortune to him causes deep sorrow throughout the college. With all Harvard men, we hope that Dr. Peabody who has been so much to Harvard and Harvard students, may by the skilful advice of his physicians, be restored to health...
...hope that the series of foot-ball games which begins to-day with the game between eighty-six and eighty-nine, and which is to decide what class shall hold the championship of the college, will have all the interest and attention from the students at large that it deserves. The men who are struggling to tide Harvard over this off year for foot-ball certainly merit all the support that the college can give them, and the games to be played this week and next should be interesting to all, and should be witnessed by as many...
...tastes, and the Chamber Concerts and annual concert of the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality also play an important part in the musical events of the year. Of lectures and readings there is no stint. The Art Club has already given the college one enjoyable evening, and we may hope that the Finance, Historical and Philosophical Societies will also do their share. In short, the outlook is promising enough, and if all else fails, - why, Boston is only a half-hour's ride away...
...conference committee has taken the right stand. A special committee is corresponding with twenty four colleges on methods of examining and marking. Let us hope that their work will result at least in an agitation that will call general attention to reform...