Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...high time that the college authorities recognize the necessity of instituting a change. As for the specific remedies suggested by this article, they are so eminently sensible that we hope to see them carried out. It the board of directors have any vitality at all in them they have a chance to show it now by following the path that this outsider has so clearly pointed out to them...
...seems hardly possible that any one who has been in Harvard College three months should show so little the effect of its reforming influence as to feel no shame at such a display of native boorishness. I sincerely hope the Board of Directors will exert their authority and compel the fellow to move whether he is willing...
...More leisure for workingmen is very desirable. In it lies their main hope of progress in: (a) Health. (b) Intelligence. (c) Good citizenship. Gunton' pp. 240-51, 373-7. Congr. Globe, 2nd session, 40th Congr...
...scholastic week at Harvard College in 1642 and 1643 there were thirty-three hours of theory and practice, averaging eleven hours a week to each class. (12) Saturday afternoon was a half-holiday, except that the first hour of it was improved by the college, possibly with the hope that, after an introduction to history in the winter and to the nature of plants in the summer, students would further improve these fields of study during the remainder of the afternoon. Ability to translate passage of the Bible from the Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic into Latin, and to expound biblical...
There was a very good attendance at vespers yesterday, notwithstanding the rain. Dr. McKenzie made a short address and the choir sang "Lift up Your Head" (Hopkins), and "I will Lay Me Down" (O. B. Brown). Mr. J. E. Ricketson, the well-known tenor, rendered a solo-"My Hope is in the Everlasting," from Stainer's "Daughter of Jairus...