Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...real life which characterizes the Athletic Association cannot but be pleasing to all interested in physical culture. How pleasing this life must be to the undergraduates called to the head of the association for this year. When the college year opened last fall, the prospect which met their eyes was anything but bright. Indeed, to many the prospect appeared gloomier than ever before. Two years had elapsed since a trainer had been permitted by the faculty to prepare men in general athletics; the last of the celebrated college athletes trained in the old days had graduated, and comparatively...
...number hundreds, and one instructor has several such, great delay in getting back the examination books necessarily results. Weeks, and in a few cases months, must elapse before the students learn their marks. We can only exhort them to have patience, to reason with themselves on the prospect of their instructors who are toiling through thousands of pages of strange handwriting in their endeavors to approximate the knowledge of the subject in hand possessed by the writers. Truly, the work of grinding up a course and writing about it for three hours, is but slight, compared with the almost endless...
...Cornell students are rejoicing at the prospect of having a hall in which their nine can practice...
There is some prospect that Princeton will have a daily paper. There will then be four American colleges which support daily papers,-Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Prmceton...
...companions in line with it spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. And far away rose the hills that bounded the view, with the glimmer here and there of the white walls or the illuminated casements of some embowered. half-hidden villa. Eastwardly also, the prospect was, in my earlier remembrance, widely open, and I have frequently seen the sunlit sails gliding along as if through the level fields, for no water was visible. So there were broad expanses on two sides at least, for my imagination to wander over...