Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heart that "with silent curses doth resound" is a wonder that we hope is peculiar to Williams...
...required for this purchase is $20,000. In spite of the hard times, we have thought it worth while to make this statement, being not without hope that among the many friends of education, some might be willing to help us in providing a suitable habitation, where our enterprise, so successfully begun, may find room for its natural growth and expansion...
...prompted to write from very pleasure, and from their actually having something to write about. Here at Harvard, literary activity is the exception rather than the rule. Still it is true that in this respect, the present year goes far ahead of many previous years, Let us hope that next year will outstrip this. No persons would welcome greater literary ability in the college at large more than the at present over-worked editors of the college papers. We believe that in saying this, we are speaking not only for ourselves, but for the editors of the other Harvard papers...
...with a very slight degree of correctness, are specialists; and their specialism has to be attended with great injury to themselves as well as to the general interests of the college. We have men who grind all the time, whole sole ambition is to grind in that ever laudable hope of getting high marks. Others desire nothing but athletic records, or reputations for dress, good looks, rapidity of living, and number and size and variety of bull-pups. All such are specialists. Not one of them is getting that for which he came to college, or that at least...
...hope that our nine will show some improvement in one respect in this game, that is, in base running and coaching. In this respect our nine's play has been wretched in almost every game which it has played this year, and if it had not been for its splendid fielding and heavy batting we should have lost more than one game simply through this fault. There are doubtless, reasons why every man cannot be a good base runner, but there is no excuse for the poor coaching, which has cost us many a run this season. If there...