Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Thanksgiving found most of the students away, but enough were on hand to participate in a banquet at Commons and in the work of supplying many hungry people with food at the Yale Hope Mission...
...payment of the subscriptions was due, suitable notice appeared and repeated later efforts were made to secure payment. Today 205, just one firth of last year's pledges, are paid in full. As a last resort the committee is undertaking an individual postcard canvass of the delinquents, in the hope of eliciting a few more of the promised contributions. But the quantity of unredeemed pledges, two months after all should have been paid, seem to reflect, upon the part of the mass of the undergraduates, who appear to expect to be personally dunned for payment of their pledges, a certain...
...placing our faith, we hope, as the sportsman always does, that the better team will win. And when all is said and done, the better team probably will win, for failures and flukes are as much a measure of a team as splendid gains and wonderful charges. If a team fails in a crucial test, it is not the better team at that time, whatever it may have been before or may be after. But, to be frank, the philosophy of hoping that the better team will win is curiously involved with a good deal of believing that...
...sold the ticket, deserves not the least semblance of sympathy. He has secured his ticket under false pretenses and has then proceeded to deprive men who really need the opportunity of a chance to usher. Blacklisting is too light a penalty for such an offence. But we hope that consciences will come into play and that no penalties will have to be inflicted...
...reply that it was arterial red. Then it occurred to us that perhaps Calgary might know even less than we about that bloody shade of crimson. So the editorial shears were applied to a banner and a sample was sent speeding on its way to the Canadian border. We hope that this new college of the Canadian Northwest will thrive under the color which it has chosen...