Word: prospects
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...addition, English, does not suggest any knowledge, however limited, of Anglo-Saxon. If Graduate Course 7, and possibly 8 or 9, could be added to the list, and another course in Literature given, there might be some satisfaction in studying English as thoroughly as any other language, with a prospect of having such study recognized as at least equal to the labors of students of the classics. We cannot help thinking that it is a grave mistake not to give to the English language and literature a foremost place in our curriculum, - not to encourage a faithful critical investigation...
LAST year warnings were sent to some forty students in Political Economy after the first hour-examination. There is good prospect that this number will not fall off this year, judging from the looks of the students as they left U. E. R. last Monday...
...work by requiring only twelve hours of electives instead of fourteen. That encouragement should be held out to this plan by any of the Faculty is a matter of congratulation, not only on account of the benefit to the Juniors, but because it shows that there is a prospect of another step from a conservative to a liberal policy. There is no reason for making Juniors take fourteen hours, except that they always have done so. We cannot see why Seniors should take fewer hours than Juniors are obliged to, unless the Faculty confess that the work previous...
...preparations for the performances of the OEdipus Tyrannus in Sanders Theatre, next spring, are being actively pushed forward, with every prospect of success. Professor White, as is well known, has undertaken the arduous task of general direction. The charge of the detail has been carefully allotted to other gentlemen, who will make a special study of the departments intrusted to them. Thus, Professor Paine will write the music; he has indeed already written the score for the first and second choruses. Professors Goodwin and Norton will attend to the costumes; Professor J. D. Allen to the dancing; Mr. John Wheeler...
...present I am on a special probation from Amy, only enlivened by three little letters a week, and there is a strong prospect that when her Cousin Dick ceases to be my chum, he will become - my cousin...