Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This sum includes subscriptions from graduates which have been paid to the committees from the classes. A good deal more money has been subscribed but not yet paid. The committee hope that all who have subscribed will pay up before they leave for the summer and that those who have not yet subscribed will give as much as they can, as it will require fully $10,000 to get the new track and grounds into first class shape. The committee wish that every man in college who takes any interest in Harvard athletics would do his best to collect money...
...offer privileges for the study of specialties not strictly professional which no other university of the country has been able to equal. It is very evident that a university on the plan of Harvard, with its comparatively limited funds and with its multifarious schools and extensive academical department, cannot hope to afford such instruction to graduate students of the liberal arts and sciences as Johns Hopkins, with its narrower and more limited range. Therefore the institution of the latter university, in a field where it could perform a work peculiarly its own, was an event full of importance...
...Polo grounds should induce every Harvard man, whether graduate or undergraduate, to do his best to provide suitable grounds for the association. It is but seldom that the Athletic Association calls for assistance, and this should be an additional reason for giving the assistance when it is needed. We hope that every one who has subscribed will pay his subscription as soon as possible, and that the committee will meet with no difficulty in getting enough additional subscriptions to complete the work...
...words, I wish the music had been published earlier, but I have confidence in the musical ability of our class and I think that the rehearsals which we shall have next week will equal in number, and very likely surpass in effect, the rehearsals of '82. I hope that this explanation will serve as a partial justification in the eyes of my brother of '83, who is rightly disturbed at my very unfortunate tardiness...
...sure to bring. Especially is this to be desired at this time of the year when the students desire as much quiet as possible. It would seem as though the superintendent of the yard could attend to this, but if it is not part of his duties, we hope it will not be long before some one is appointed to keep our yard free from the noise and cries incident to a public thoroughfare...