Word: wishes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...simply came home," he said, "after listening to Mr. Holmes. He spoke so contemptuously of a dry theology - and his remarks were applied to this college, for he mentioned Princeton - that I took the earliest train I could get for home. When I went to Harvard I did not wish a degree for myself, but I was disappointed when Princeton was left out and the neighboring colleges got honors...
...these are the causes for bitterness on the part of the venerable and venerated Doctor, against Harvard and Harvard's president and poet, we can only deplore them and wish that the misunderstanding had not occurred, and that it may even now be smoothed over, without permanent ill-feeling. We trust that the Princeton Alumni who are supporting so vigorously - as 'tis said - their president in his mistaken quarrel, will adopt as moderate and pacific a tone as the Harvard Alumni, and devote their energies not to fomenting, but to allaying the strife...
...Again it is urged that the present system of surveillance is a bad one. But is this true? Are the proctors put in the buildings to report disturbances or to prevent them? Most assuredly the latter. We are given to understand, from good authority, that the faculty does not wish to hear of breaches of discipline in the college dormitories, but that they want the proctors to protect from molestation the men who take rooms in those dormitories and mind their own business. Men should remember that a college room is not like an isolated house in a ten acre...
CONFERENCE FRANCAISE. All who wish to become members, must send in their names to me at once, that I may send the list to the Index in time...
...audience remained seated and Professor Norton knowing the evident wish of all present again ascended the stage and made a short speech of thanks to Dr. Creighton. "It is a great pleasure," he said, for the oldest of American Universities to be connected as Dr. Creighton has shown us with the oldest of the universities of England and the world. It gives an added dignity to our short years to feel that they are thus connected with the universities to which civilization owes so much. It is a pleasure to know that English blood flows in the veins of those...