Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that the price of board should not be greater than it had been at the Thayer Club, the only improvements the new club could promise were a beautiful hall instead of an old, tumble-down railroad-depot, neat and trained negro-waiters instead of untidy Irish women, and the prospect of food somewhat better than at the old Commons, owing to the increase in the numbers of the club, and to the skill and experience of a professional steward. In respect of all these the club is certainly far ahead of the old railroad-depot. The waiters are quick...
...great nicety, and is of some service to the physician, as well as both of the two laboratory courses above noticed. Lastly, organic chemistry carries us into the higher fields of the science. It is but a step, yet enough to get some glimpse of its extended prospect. It is almost wholly theoretical, the course of lectures being illustrated by experiments performed, at need, by the student. On it is based all of the advances made by the science in our day. It requires rather an inquiring and philosophical mind than delicacy of manipulation, as it has to do with...
...story is about to be repeated, - the "University Crew" need ready money; and as the outstanding subscriptions are almost sufficient to carry the crew through training, we take the opportunity here offered to remind the men that they would further the interest of rowing, and the prospect for the coming year, if they would call at the Treasurer's room, No. 14 Little's Block, and at once pay the amount of their subscriptions. Appended is a list of the crews and the time...
...fortnight before the race comes off, in order to put in an appearance at all, they are driven to the second crew. Two of the best men have been taken from it and put on the first crew, which, in spite of a new stroke, and a prospect by no means enlivening, is doing tolerably well...
...chief object of the President's visit to England was to study these systems. To those of us who are of conservative proclivities, the expectation of any changes whatever is, to say the least, disquieting; but when the new regulations are to be copied from the English systems, the prospect is decidedly darkened...