Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...predict for the school a most brilliant future, perhaps far more prosperous than is even hoped for by the gentlemen who have the matter in hand. In the very nature of its surroundings and purposes, the school offers a most attractive study-home for earnest scholars, while the learning of the men who will conduct it will in itself tend to invite the constantly increasing number of earnest lovers of the classics...
Quite a number of freshmen are working regularly in the gymnasium for positions on the crew. From the quality of the men working we dare to predict a very fine crew...
...happy to announce that one of our students - a protege of ours - has undertaken the preparation of a new series of class-room anecdotes and ironclads (jokes) for the use of college professors. We predict for the work a rapid sale in this institution. - [Academica...
...preparatory school. The instructors, while assuming the dignity of university professors, treat the scholars as boys. All are shaped for college with one machine, and the only oil used is the well-known "roughing." As long as the professors continue in this course, we cannot but predict these petty outbreaks which so injure the good name of the best preparatory school we have...
...Inter-University sports for the last sixteen years, and the inevitable success of these yearly meetings should certainly prove a sufficient inducement to Harvard and Yale to try the experiment. We shall hope next year to see our representative athletes side by side with those of Yale, and predict the unqualified success of the project, should it ever be put into execution...