Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this leads us to another matter. For the past few years the members of the Hall have considered the dinner hour on April Fool's Day as a perfectly legitimate time for the suspension of all sense of good breeding and conventional table-manners. We sincerely hope that this sort of "fun" will be omitted this evening. If an appeal to the members' sense of decency and regard for gentle-manly conduct (as opposed to the manners of a fourth rate boarding house) can have any effect, let us be free from a custom at once hopelessly childish and also...
...human race is old and changes slowly, but we must not despair, for in a relative world one can not attain an absolute goal. We should be patient and do what we can to bring it about that more people can with reasonable hope aspire to a condition of greater happiness. It is to this aim that modern politics gives at least lip-homage...
...land tenure. They may be cured by proper use of governmental power. The Reformation was a doing away with religious machinery which prevented man's reaching God. The political reform of today is the doing away with bosses which keep the people from running their government. The hope of democracy lies in making itself more democratic...
...move is to be made at all, we hope that it will be made soon. If we are to have meets with college teams next season, the recognition must come before Christmas. In order that a whole season may not be lost, for the men interested in swimming, we urge the Athletic Association to give the matter its attention within the present year...
...competent to conceive and plan, organize and direct, must have creative ability and sound reasoning faculties. He must be acquainted with business methods, with human nature. Faraday said: "It requires twenty years to make a man in the physical sciences." The young engineer must have infinite optimism and hope. Yet the result more than repays this delay; for there is no satisfaction so great as the realization that one has advanced the progress of mankind...