Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coach Rush has announced that in spite of the proximity of the Harvard game there will be a scrimmage every day until the team goes to Cambridge on Friday, and on that day also. The team needs plenty of hard work before it can hope for success in its big games...
...matter what party wins at the coming election, it is my sincere wish and urgent hope that the victorious party will usher in a new era and will be instrumental in bringing America to the Fore in such a way that her words will be respected both by herself and by other nations...
...what is Mr. Hughes' reaction toward this new situation? In all of his speeches I find not one single original idea on this subject, not one single illuminating contribution to this most vital topic of the world's thought. What we had a right to hope for was a leader who could tell us something of the great part our people ought to play in this new, throbbing world, something of the debt we owe mankind for our prosperity. Has Hughes been such a leader? On the contrary, he has shown himself to be only the old-time conventional campaigner...
...government which, in conjunction with unscrupulous foreign capitalists, has exploited and robbed Mexico." The gentle and humanitarian policy of "allowing" the Mexicans to "rid themselves" of oppression, etc., has seemed rather more like a policy of unwarrantable and secretly conducted interference, to the end of destroying the only hope of stable government that Mexico possessed, of plunging her into the years of anarchy that followed and enraging her against us. "To have intervened would have meant the armed occupation of Mexico," Mr. Paine says. Not to have intervened has meant, we reply, the killing of hundreds of Mexicans, the loss...
Whether we wish to vote for the President on November 7 or for ex-Justice Hughes is a problem for our private judgment; we shall act according to our lights and not, we hope, according to our traditional or unexamined predilections. But whatever be our political opinions, there is one point on which as thinking and loyal citizens we can enthusiastically unite. It is in an attempt to secure the privilege for ourselves and future generations of college students of voting in presidential elections, without regard to the invidious question of whether or not we are entirely self-supporting...