Word: hoping
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Harvard seems to be particularly unfortunate this year in having her athletes disabled. The latest misfortune which we are compelled to chronicle is the retirement - temporary it is to be hoped - of Mr. Curtis from stroke's position in the University crew. Without him our crew loses much of its efficiency, as we can not hope to fill his place in the short time before the race. We trust that the injury will not prove so bad as reported, and that Mr. Curtis will be able to resume his place in a short time...
...establishing of a half-course in elocution shows that the faculty intend to give this subject an assured position among college studies. It has always been a cause of comment that so important a subject should be neglected so much. We hope that this new departure will lead to a more general interest in this subject...
...students is much less close than in the West, and much less individual influence is exerted; but there are those who do exert a strong and thoroughly Christian influence. One of the best of these, it is rumored, Harvard is to lose next year; for her own sake I hope this will not prove true. The "Society of Christian Brethren," founded in 1802, meets weekly. The Harvard Total Abstinence Society has what ought to be considered a very small membership, but it is worth nothing that it exists, and recently had a public meeting at which ex-Governor Long...
...said, by those who have already seen them, to be among the best produced by college men for several years. One of the gentlemen who take part is deemed by many to be one of the best amateur actors seen in college for a number of years. We hope then, for the sake of the Boat Club, for the sake of the society which has spent so much time and labor on them, and for the sake of those who enjoy a good play, that there will not be a single vacant seat at the performance next Thursday...
...understand that the managers of the Freshman crew are meeting with some difficulty in securing the payment of the subscriptions which have been made by the members of the class. We hope that the mere mention of the fact will cause every one to reflect upon the trouble which is thus occasioned the managers, and by so doing bring about a speedy removal of this source of annoyance...