Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...excited precautions are rapidly sending Anna the way of her ancestors. She is rescued by a faithful old servant who tells her that she is an illegitimate child and "not a Warden" except in name. The story is a lie; but it saves the girl, who goes, with new hope, to work. The play is well written and was well acted throughout. Miss Ellis as the heroine showed genuine power...
...Trespass," two miners, shut up in a cave, are dying of exhaustion. Mike comforts himself by constant prayer; Pete blasphemes. In time Mike's assurance that he dies in peace because the sins of the penitent are forgiven by God and by all Christian men gives Pete new hope; Pete confesses that the has sinned with Mike's wife, proclaims his repentance, and demands pardon. Mike, facing death, forgives him; but hearing the picks of the rescuing party and seeing release, strangles him. The play has strength. Mr. Silverman and Mr. Walker acted it with earnestness and dignity, but without...
...United States, is to prove that the Serbian people are worthy of the charity of the people of the United States. Professor Miyatovich will trace the features of mediseval and modern history of Serbia impartially, without relation to belligerency, or agitation against "our present enemies, who, I hope, may tomorrow be our friends." Members of the History Department of the University consider Professor Miyatovich the best authority on the Serbian people and history in the world. He began his career as Professor of Political Economy at the High College of Belgrade nearly 50 years ago. Since that time Professor Miyatovich...
...perfectly right in his contention about the power of the Athletic Committee. No difficulty is insurmountable as long as that body "has authority to regulate all sports." But in the present situation, that is not the issue. Are we going to allow this power to die through inertia, and hope the necessity for its resurrection may never come, and that it will, never be appealed to, or shall we insist on a closer relation between authority and responsibility...
...despot, roughshod over rowing traditions or over undergraduate ideas. To those who expect or await the establishment of such a dictator to govern Harvard rowing I express an opinion that they are doomed to disappointment. There has never been encouraged in any sport that sort of control; and I hope there never will be a time when the undergraduate is to work under a system which requires of him only a mechanical performance...