Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...varsity nine began practice yesterday. Although the outlook is not at all what it was at this time last year, we can at least hope for the best in spite of our bad prospects; last year we never expected anything else but success, and yet somehow we lost the championship at the last moment. This year when we have little reason to expect anything better than second place, fate should, by the same perverseness, give us the coveted pennant. At any rate the college will have in either case the satisfaction of knowing that nothing will be left undone...
...prestige. We do not think that the importance of this question is fully appreciated by the members of this university. Harvard must return to the front rank and if she is to do this it will be through the work done during the winter months. We hope that this little reminder will not be forgotten by those who are now working in gymnasium...
...Massachusetts 3 has been adorned with window shades, an extravagance which some conservatives may be ready to condemn, but which no former sufferer from Phoebus' rays will not hail with delight. Since the University has been ready to do so much for our comfort, the sanguine among us may hope to see plank-walks throughout the yard before the twentieth century dawns on the world...
...freedom the subject of compulsory attendance at religious services. Dr. Barbour's resignation will not take effect until next June. At that time the university authorities will select a new pastor or provide temporarily for a continuation of the work which he has done. Apparently there are some who hope that his retirement will be followed by a change of the plan upon which the university's religious exercises have been conducted...
...improve opportunities to know students personally. I wish that I could say as much for the rather diffident youths, who, doubtless unmeaningly, have more than once failed to respond to friendly advances. What I have said, however, should be enough to show one of the reasons why I hope in time to see at Harvard a University Club that shall include both students and officers...