Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University crew leaves to-day for New London. Its Columbia rivals are already on the Thames hard at work. That our crew will hold their position on the river of last year is ardently hoped for, and reasonably to be expected. The exhibition row of the crew yesterday was extremely gratifying to the large audience which thronged the boat-house to witness it. The crew showed great improvement in the style and finish of its stroke; if it has the same lasting power that it possessed a year ago, it should win both its races. Captain Mumford...
...Haven on Saturday is urged to sign the book at Leavitt & Peirce's immediately, so that the arrangements may be made for the trip. We need hardly call attention to the fact that the price decrease, in direct ratio as the number of men going down increases. We hope to see one blue book full at least by noon...
...sure, an instructor may, by marking easily on a hard paper, put himself on a par with an instructor who marks an easy paper hard; but the very difference between the papers makes it uncertain that he will do so. This is an old subject, but we cannot hope for fair marking till a more uniform standard is adapted...
...freshmen play the second game with Yale '89. If there are any men who have not yet felt the necessity of their going to New Haven, let them now awake from their lethargy. There is still time to be present at the game this afternoon. We hope that the nine o'clock train will take down to Yale a large delegation of enthusiastic freshmen...
...cricket eleven have now stopped practice till next autumn, when they hope to arrange some further games. They have played thus far, six games, including two practice games with Longwood. The first game came off at Longwood on May 1st, in which we were defeated, our half of the second inning not being played. The second game, against the Independents at Lowell, was most unsatisfactory, owing to the wretched umpiring; score 80 66 against Harvard. On May 20, the second Longwood game resulted in a score of 82-57 for Longwood. And on May 22 a game with the Boston...