Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard graduate not so long loosed from the fold, and as a former CRIMSON editor, I wish to congratulate you on your wise decision to remain non-partisan in the presidential campaign this year...
...graduate of the Military Academy I wish to express my appreciation for the hospitality shown the Cadets Saturday. Your West Point number of the CRIMSON was in itself a warm welcome, though but one of many manifestations of interest and courtesy on the part of Harvard...
...death bed, last week, the Dowager Empress whispered a wish to say farewell to the chief of her still faithful Cossack Guard. With tears streaming uncontrollably down his cheeks the giant Cossack came and knelt at her bedside. "God and all his Holy Angels receive you!" he cried, "I shall not survive you long, Matoushka Tsaritsa! I shall come to serve you in Heaven...
...envied you, men of Harvard. Walking guard up and down a gravel path at 3 o'clock on a summer's morning has sometimes caused us to wonder why we chose the military academy to a civilian institution. Bells ringing and bugles blowing with unceasing regularity make us sometimes wish that we had chosen the "dorms" of John Harvard to the barracks of West Point. Studying five or six hours a day for recitations makes us wish that we had the lecture courses of Harvard to attend. Leading the almost-convent-like existence of Cadets, we sometimes with that...
...would suggest for consideration of those in authority that the ruling be changed so that those men who wish to continue as members of the Union from year to year be requested to sign their names at the desk in the main hall of the Union at the beginning of the year. This would be no great inconvenience, as it would only take a minute of time away from the first visit of these men to the Union a visit that any man desiring to rejoin the Union would be certain to take during the opening weeks of college...