Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...charge by Captain John Rogers, who is one of the most enthusiastic of oarsmen. First he set them swinging Indian clubs, and after they had tossed them about for half an hour and had become tolerably well warmed up they were started on a six mile run around Prospect Hill. The candidates were stroked by Captain Stewart, of the junior crew, and were as follows:- Cross, of '88, No. 7; Stevenson, '88, No. 6; Woodruff, '89, No. 5; Middlebrook, '87, No. 4; Hurd, '88, No. 3; Gill, '89, No. 2, and Wilcox...
...Yale News speaking editorially of the prospect of the freshman nine, says: "We hope that '90 will take a lesson from its poor work in foot-ball and place in the field next spring a team of which the university will not be ashamed...
...fact is, that for a German professor ordinarus or well-established extraordinarius with fair prospect of a successful career, the American university salary will offer no possible attraction; and the reason is not far to seek. It may lie partly, to be sure, in the natural disinclination to expatriation so notably characteristic of the German official as well as military and aristocratic class, especially in so far as expatriation is supposed to involve retirement from the arena of advanced investigation. This explanation is, however, unnecessary. The German professor is decidedly better off financially than the American; and we shall deceive...
...understood in the sense of income, and must, for purposes of comparison, include the various lecture fees, examination fees, both for the civil examinations and doctor examinations, the allowance for rent, and occasional immunity from various taxes, to say nothing of the various travelling stipendia, of the definite prospect of pension, and of the permanency of tenure...
...following is an extract from the Phillipian on the prospect of an eleven next fall. Andover evidently takes time by the forelock...