Word: predict
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Theatricals are all the rage in Princeton this season. The Dramatic Association is hard at work rehearsing Garrick's "Country Girl," and if last year's successes can be taken as a criterion, we predict a treat for all. The club has excellent material and seems endowed with an unusual amount of perseverance and enthusiasm...
...year the president of the boat club went out every day with a scratch crew, and the result of his labors has been made apparent in the closeness of the contest last Friday. Let the same thing be done this year on a larger scale, and we can safely predict that our future class and 'varsity crews will be much benefited by the result...
...skating are the prominent out-door sports in winter, and there are special opportunities for both. This interest and participation in athletics, which is seen at all large schools for women, is rightly regarded as one of the most promising signs of the times; and there are many who predict that the day will come when the active woman of sense and strength will entirely supersede the languid doll of sentiment and fancy...
...teaching. Let us hope that every one of these professions is to be discussed from the platform in Sever 11 by as able men as the Rev. Phillips Brooks and the Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who are to speak on the "Ministry" and "Law as a Profession." We predict that Sever 11 will find itself more than ever unsuited to be the place of a popular course of lectures. The first two speakers are men of such note that we wonder that it was not announced that they would speak in Sanders, where their large audiences might...
...resist the encroachments of Turkey, and has politely informed the powers of Europe that she will accept no arbitration from them. What will be the outcome? At home we are encountered by a crisis of a different nature. A derangement of our currency is threatened. The anti-silver men predict a financial revolution unless the coinage of the Bland silver dollar is discontinued; the silver men are likewise confident in predicting similar disasters if Congress should suspend the coinage of this eighty cent dollar. These are a few of the history-making events of the present year...