Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stay, and has heard many innovations threatened for future years. She has the satisfaction of feeling that they were all steps in advance, reforms tending to make Harvard a liberal university. She will leave Harvard not yet fully reorganized, but with a definite policy before her and a bright prospect for the future...
...others can spare a day for the trip. The nine has won the first game against Yale. With proper support there ought to be no question of the second. Judged by the number of university players on the team, no class for years has had so good a prospect of winning. The team has won the class championship, and ought to have the confidence of the class of '93. United and enthusiastic cheering can do a great deal toward winning at New Haven. Ninety-three ought to leave nothing undone to help their nine. No freshman class since...
...long been the desire of the authorities to open up the land deeded by Mr. Longfellow, but the cost of filling in the marshes as well as the prospect of unsatisfactory results in case a dike were built, has a ways deterred them. It has been estimated that to fill in the Longfellow land would cost at least four thousand dollars an acre. This new gift, however, is situated on high ground, four feet above the water level. It accordingly affords ample room for all present development and at the some time it will be easy gradually to extend quarters...
...affairs, concerned with the present, and rarely, if ever, looking to the future except to draw thence new arguments for in fluencing the lives of his contemporaries. The picture of the future is such as is needed by the present. Isaiah and Jeremiah present the gloomy prospect of captivity in Assyria and Babylon, while a later prophet, just before the exile period closes, points in glowing terms the glories of the return to Judea. The prophet was in an important sense, a man of his time, and he always appeared in connection with great national epochs which demanded his presence...
Among the entries for the games of the Prospect Harriers in New York last Saturday, were Green. '92, Moen, '91, J. J. Lee, '91, and Fearing, '93. None of the Harvard men won a place...