Word: predict
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this document for presentation to the authorities has been no easy one, and that much energy has been shown by the gentlemen having the matter in charge. The petition, with 900 signatures affixed, has now been handed in. What action will be taken upon is, it is impossible to predict. It is said, however, that there is, among the faculty, a strong feeling in favor of the proposed reform...
...Economy. The lectures to be delivered by Professor Sumner, of Yale, and by Dr. Taussig, of our own political economy department, ought to attract the attention of all Harvard men who are at present engaged in the study of this subject, and, the lectures being free, we venture to predict that the college will be well represented at them...
...almost too early yet to predict with much certainty what students will be contestants in the meetings, yet the large number of old men who are to be seen exercising daily in the gymnasium, gives some promise of exciting contests in each event. In the Heavy, Middle and Light Weight wrestling there is always a small number of entries, and this year there is a very good chance for new men, as none of those who contested in those events before will probably enter. In the Feather Weight wrestling the men who contested last year, namely Hughes and A. Coolidge...
...other half appointed by the Committee after consulting a few undergraduates; let the topics chosen at first be of not too exciting a kind; let some rule of re-invitation be adopted by which the Committee shall be able to weed out the more unreasonable,-and we predict that the thing will go along smoothly and quietly, until in the course of a year or two the students will be educated up to the thing, will grow accustomed to it, and soon something of real value will result...
...attempt of two men to break into a room in the north entry of Hollis. The burglars were frightened away, however, by the occupants of the room before they succeeded in effecting an entrance. As this occurrence has been reported to the police it is safe to predict that nothing farther will be heard from...