Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college so long in suspense. Even if it purposes, also, to open the canvass again, there seems to be little reason why, considering the interest, the results already obtained should not have been announced. The CRIMSON certainly bears the Union no ill-will. On the other hand, we hope for it a most successful year; and yet we cannot refrain from this one word of criticism upon a worthy society...
What has happened to the lacrosse players? Have they given up all hope of winning back the championship this year? Because, if they have not, it behooves them to bestir themselves. The Princeton men have been at work for some time and have been getting some valuable practice. Why should not we go and do likewise? There is a popular belief at Harvard that autumn practice does no good in athletic sports, except of course in football. This is a great mistake. If the lacrosse management would issue a call for players now they would save some valuable time...
...first meeting of the year of the Harvard Total Abstinence League took place last evening in Sever 11. The meeting was called to order by the president, D. C. Torrey, '90, who stated the objects of the league and expressed the hope that all members of the university who were in sympathy with the work of the league even though not total abstainers themselves, would join it. He then introduced Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D. D., who said that the question which was before them was the principal social issue of the times whether in religion, in politics...
...progress which is being made by the Banjo Club. Those who were present at the last Glee Club end Pierian concert will remember what a pleasant feature the members of the Banjo Club introduced into the programme of the evening, and will, no doubt, join us in hoping that the experiment may be repeated this year. There is one suggestion which we would make, however, and that is that the music should be of a lighter character than that chosen for last year's performance. Light, jiggy airs are far more appropriate to the banjo than are the more intricate...
...just. He urges either that the meetings be repeated under somewhat different plans, or that some more practical scheme of work be suggested immediately. The writer is right when he hints that it would be a pity to allow the work inaugurated last year to be discontinued, and we hope that his appeal will be heard and acted upon...