Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been finished at Wellesley. Tennis seems to be the one game in which girl-students really take an interest. The excitement over the playing in the tournament was at times intense. We are not informed as to whether the rackets were used in more ways than one, but we trust that they were not. Although reports from Vassal declare that the Wellesley tennis grounds are upon the side of a hill, this is not true. The grounds are very level and offer a good opportunity for close playing. Many of the players are well known to us as having vanquished...
...assign to it far too much significance in regard to the tone and character of our foot-ball team, is quite as undeniable. The evil, we have to confess, does, does exist in a noticeable degree, and being interested in the reputation and welfare of the college we trust the reminder, given by our correspondent, will not go unnoticed. Profanity is quite as out of place on the foot-ball field as in the parlor...
...college welcomes the announcement that the freshmen are making a move in the direction of a glee club. Eighty-eight has set at least one good example to her predecessors in initiating a custom of supporting a freshman glee club and we trust that eighty-nine will not be backward in helping to make the custom initiated, a custom established. Freshman glee clubs are sources of profit and pleasure to their classes and to the college; of profit because, as in the case of eighty-nine's glee club, they are able to assist in defraying the expenses...
...some attempt will be made to raise the standard of instruction in the West, and that the present complaints against the conduct of western colleges as compared with the government of those in the East will be no longer justly made. We wish the new university every success, and trust that in it we shall at no distant day recognize the leading college of the West...
...course follows at this point, takes on quite a terrific air. Medical authorities are brought on the scene, and we are informed as a climax that one of the injured players was "probably fatally injured." Such rhetorical efforts as this, savor over much of the morbid, and we trust that the writer of the glaring account, will, in the future, curb his imaginative enthusiasm and adopt a little less of the conventional dime novel style...