Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hear that the Lampoon may possibly be unable to continue its publication this year, on account of the graduation of its best editors. We hope that the report is not true, for what would Lasell girls do without the Lampoon. - Lasell Leaves...
...playing of the foot-ball eleven in Philadelphia last Saturday was very disappointing. The students who accompanied the eleven were disappointed and the alumni who visited the field in the hope of seeing the team play as Princeton teams 'used to play" were disappointed. With but two or three exceptions every man seemed to play as poorly as he knew how. The backs fumbled the ball far oftener than they held it, and the rushers were expert at getting the ball near the line only to give it into the hands of an opponent and see it kicked back...
...anniversary celebration will mark an epoch in the history of the college. The celebration of fifty years ago marked the beginning of great changes in the constitution of Harvard, which only with this year have reached their full development. Now at last the college has been transformed. And I hope it is not with idle pride that we now believe it to be the most liberal in its advantages, the most complete, the best American university. And yet the change is not so great as is often thought. In my day even we already had the elective system. The senior...
...choice of the athletic committee for the year is announced, and under its direction as formed, we have everything to hope for the welfare of our athletics. The re-establishment of foot-ball among the college sports, in justice to the new style of play shown by the other colleges last year, and the strenuous efforts to better the facilities of the gymnasium, are some of the more important works of the last committee. However futile the latter may be for the present, there is plenty of work for the committee, both in this direction and keeping up the high...
Moreover, the cessation of the old obnoxious calls at U. 5 establishes pleasanter relations between the undergraduates and the office. And added to this is the hope that the instructor will unconsciously be spurred on to make his lectures as interesting and attractive as possible, naturally preferring that method of holding his hearers to the unpleasant one of warning and threats...