Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...congratulate the nine on their good team work yesterday. We hope that they will continue to persevere in the good wook which they must accomplish before they meet Columbia on the thirtieth of this month...
...reconsideration of the Yale challenge is a matter for the freshman class to think of during the coming recess. It may have been settled technically at their last meeting, but it has not been settled decisively, we hope - for the action of the class was scarcely more than a mere evasion of the real question. It is well to bear in mind that the old adage of a "stitch in time saves nine" is as true as ever it was, and the feeling of distrust which is prevalent at Yale, if not done away with at once, will...
Some arrangement of this nature has long been needed here. It is a matter of universal belief that great extravagance is unavoidable in the present manner of conducting the expenditures of the various athletic teams. Therefore the proposition, we hope, will be accepted immediately by the other three organizations whose approval is necessary...
...wish that a little more "science" had been displayed in the latter, while retaining the same amount of vigor and pluck. We believe that while boxing may be pleasant for our lady friends to witness, "slugging," or any approach to it, should vigorously be excluded, and, therefore, we hope that next year some method may be contrived by which none but feather-weight boxing will be permitted on the First Ladies...
...hope that the well may be cleaned out as soon as the warm weather permits and that it will again be restored to its proud superiority as of old - when it was said that the best water in Cambridge was that which splashed from the nozzle of the old college pump into the battered tin dipper hanging at its side...