Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this year are very slight indeed. With five vacant places to fill the outlook is not very encouraging. Our greatest rivals, Yale and Princeton, have also suffered in this way, but not nearly as much as Harvard has. It is only by the very hardest work that we can hope for any degree of success whatever. Captain Willard we are sure will do all he can but he is laboring under great disadvantages, having so much raw material and being without the incentive of a victorious nine behind him. If the nine is to make a step toward regaining...
...report that for some time the university has been busying herself in the acquisition of new lands and buildings with the purpose of enlarging her academical domains. We are doubly pleased to hear thus early of the beneficient results of President Dwight's administration. But we sincerely hope that that beneficence will not end at the purchase of buildings and lands. Now that Yale is "really and truly" a university, hope is cherished on every side that her curriculum will prove the reality and truth of her claim to a broader field of work than is possible for a college...
...when there is any lecture of special interest under the auspices of Harvard or any college society. The lecture to-night is open to the public. If the Total Abstinence League really desires that the students of the university should enjoy the addresses this evening, it is to be hoped that they will try, even at this late date, to secure Sanders Theatre. We earnestly hope that it will be possible...
...fathers, may accept it because of its very antiquity. Progress is the law of the world, let me be free from prejudices of old ideas. These tendencies are inharmonious. But the fair and large-minded man lies between these two. The man who follows that is a creature of hope and remembrance. He does not think that the best way is to be blind to the past and future. He is a conservative and a progressive man. He holds fast to all the good of the past while reaching forward into future. Progress is safe only when thus made...
...stand-point and his college social status can plainly be seen but he nevertheless writes with fairness and impartiality As Mr. Wendell is connected with the Harvard Faculty it would seem that competition for prizes offered by the Lippincott Publishing House is not limited to undergraduates. We hope that a large number of articles will be submitted from Cornell. - Cornell Daily...