Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well known is the contest in preparation for which the Harvard lacrosse team does its hard work, all things are made subservient, when it is a question of a victory or a defeat. Last year we lost, but this year in spite of many disadvantages we hope to see the crimson come out victorious. The lacrosse team has been hard at work, and if diligence in practice and faithfulness in training count for anything, we may certainly hope to greet our team as victors, after the game on Saturday. One of the disadvantages under which they labored last year...
...other people who rank low in civilization. Their religious ideas are very limited; there is no idolatry among the Australians, but their few religions conceptions take the form of the lowest superstitions. To civilization, and Christianity they have not proved susceptible; they are without future, without home, without hope-a doomed people...
...college at large. With an active membership which is constantly increasing, we see no reason why the society should not be what it has proved itself to be in the past year, a live and prosperous organization. It has our best wishes, and in the future we shall hope to see it repeat the success of this year...
...regret very much that some of our old prize winners still in the University could not be induced to enter, as their absence seriously endangers our chances of again winning the championship. Still we have a very good field of contestants and hope for the best, although we think that the old men should have made every effort to lend their help towards victory. If Harvard is not first they will be to blame...
...many men should be kept in Cambridge for a week or ten days, when this comparatively unimportant examination could as well as not be given on the same day as the examination in senior English. If no change is made in the date of this examination this year, we hope that next year something will be done in the matter...