Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...instead of Monday, as heretofore. Every alternate week a shortened form of service is to be held, followed by a free discussion on religious subjects of interest. It may not be generally known that the Society is open to all Episcopalians in any department of the University, who may wish to join. All students are invited to attend the services. Rooms, 17 Grays. Meetings...
...information about the chapels, dining-halls, "quads," and student life in general at Oxford. But I do not remember that any one of them gives the best time made in the quarter-of-a-mile race or the one-hundred yard dash; and this is the point I wish to come to, namely, Athletics. The question is frequently asked, "Why do the English university men excel the American students in everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they are a hardier race and live in a better climate." This reply is true...
...wish to call attention to a statement concerning the Reading-Room, which appears in another column. The Reading-Room Association has been a blessing to a great many students during the past five or six years, and it would be so to a great many more, if they would only subscribe and get into the habit of going there. To many the Reading-Room is known only from the fact of their having seen papers hanging on the walls of Lower Massachusetts during an examination. By the payment of a trifling fee, any one obtains the right...
...maintain in regard to the groundless and insulting charges she has seen fit to make against the referee of our last race with her. We think that in this matter the general sentiment of Harvard is as follows : Yale is, above all other colleges, the one with which we wish to row, and in order to secure a race with her, we would be willing to do everything and submit to everything that gentlemen could be expected to do or to submit to; but Yale has now entirely overstepped the bounds of propriety and decency, and so long...
...elsewhere announced that the scratch races will take place to-morrow. We wish earnestly to advise all who take the slightest interest in boating to enter their names for these races, in which the number of contestants, rather than their quality, is what is desired. We would most strongly urge those who make their first appearance here this year to improve this opportunity to pull in races which, although the stakes are small, and little honor is won or lost, nevertheless afford the captain of the University Crew and the captains of the club crews one of the best opportunities...