Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present prospect is that the University Boat Club will leave a debt of about one thousand dollars ($1000.00) this year, I wish to make a statement of the accounts, hoping that those men who have not yet paid their subscriptions, will be led, thereby, to pay them at once...
...hampered to such a degree in their private work by the amount of devotion to university lecturing that is required of them. It is to be hoped that means will soon be found to enlarge the corps of instructors quite considerably, and by the addition of able scholars. The prospect which then opens before us for an enlargement of the field of instruction is both pleasing and encouraging as an evidence that, with due equipment, the United States will be able to compete with the great educational institutions of the world in the race after knowledge...
...University, Ottawa College, Monmouth College and McKendree College. The project originated only a few days ago in a casual suggestion of one of the gentlemen present yesterday afternoon, and the result is a pleasant revelation to themselves and must be a source of pride to Butte. There is every prospect of the club attaining a membership of forty or fifty as soon as it gets to work and then there will belong to it graduates of nearly all the centres of learning in this country and several from European colleges. The immense benefit to be derived by the members themselves...
...prospect of a race between Cambridge and Harvard does not advance as time goes on. No special communication of any kind being received or sent, the matter is as far off in the future as it was months ago. It is possible that the Englishmen are awaiting the result of the Yale-Harvard race before making definite plans, but this is unlikely. The probable reason for this extended talk without results is the fact that so serious an undertaking as the sending a crew to America is not a matter to be decided in haste. Yet on the other hand...
...College, and substituted therefor that of Secretary of the University. The increased powers connected with the new office and the wisdom of the change have been made apparent in the management of petitions for absence and in other ways, but what we particularly wish to notice, is the prospect for helping students in their efforts to obtain a livelihood during the summer months, and further in finding permanent situations for men who are about to leave the University. The college authorities have always done what they could in aiding graduates to get positions as teachers, but now the system...