Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whether or not we like prohibition, it is now very rapidly coming into its own. The passing of the National Amendment through the Massachusetts legislature has shown conclusively that there is little hope for the "wets." Massachusetts is the eleventh state to ratify and more significant, the fifth wet state. New York alone, of all the states that have been so far called upon to face this problem, has refused to pass the amendment: It has been successful even in such strongholds of the liquor interests as Kentucky and Maryland...
...nation is coming in behind the country stronger than ever in this loan and we hope that Harvard will follow up her spirit as shown in the R. O. T. C., by subscribing more heavily than ever. There is no reason why you, by pledging some of your possible future pleasures, can not all help to carry this loan 'over the top' to the greatest success, and, incidentally, establish a principle of saving that will stand all of you in good stead at all times in the future...
...merely an award of work done well by men eager to do their part, but prevented by age or unavoidable circumstances. To have spent so much of a year in College and to go unrewarded would be an absurd as well as a hard fate. We do not hope that Harvard will be entirely deserted immediately after April 14, but we do hope there is a large exodus of men whom our Government needs and wants...
...dead. Then the American contingent goes and nails the German general for good measure. Being fed up on such glorious killings, the auditor might expect to see Von Hindenburg shot through the heart for the final curtain, but the authors have not got that far yet. There is still hope, however, for they are yet rearranging the play...
...class or out, I have had some personal contact. Most if not all of these men I count as friends. They will probably have heard me mention, the word "truth"; and, in the course of a half-year, two or three other words. They will have observed, I hope, or if not my work here has been a failure, a certain attitude towards the universe and towards life--a fairly definite attitude. I desire these men, at least, to do what in them lies to foster and promote the sentiment of reverence and the sentiment of affection for the Institution...