Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the association, our prospects for making a good showing at the Inter-Collegiate games next spring, are unusually bright. But; as has often been said before, it is only by continued hard and faithful work on the part of every man on the team that Yale can hope to win the cup next year. - Yale News...
...much. It is a pleasure to know that English blood flows in the veins of those who live at this University." [Applause.] "I feel it is your wish for me to communicate to the Masters and Fellows of Emmanuel College the most cordial greetings from Harvard to express the hope that the associations of the past may be deepened, strengthened and made more dear in coming time." With hearty applause showing a full accord with Professor Norton's words the audience broke...
...have dwelt long on these first principles, because in them I find the key of all the meaning of the college festival. All thankfulness for the past, all hope for the great future depends, I think, in this; on whether the university which we profoundly love has grown towards, and shall continually grow more and more into a full obedience to the great masteries, a full acceptance of the great elemental influences and supplies on which all life must feed, into the fuller and fuller relation to God, and universal human life which can alone make her and keep...
...knowledge known, all growth attained. Oh! how little men have made it, and how great it is. Around all life which ever has been lived there has been found forever the life of the loving Deity and the ideal humanity. All partial excellence, all learning, all brotherhood, all hope, has been bosomed on this changeless, this unchanging being, which has stretched from the forgotten beginning to the end. It is because God has been always good; because man has been always the son of God, capable in the very substance of his nation of likeness to and union with...
...second bore two verses from Holmes' celebrated poem about "the freshman class of one," while the third, and most amusing, read as follows: "We are the oldest living undergraduates; We entered in 1657 and expect to graduate in 1887; Disfigured, but still in the ring; We live in hope...