Word: hope
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were present. Mr. Trenholm presided, and, in fact, was the only officer, the dinner being purely an informal one. The health of the crew was drunk with Highland honors, and was followed by twenty-seven cheers. Mr. Hammond and Mr. Brandegee responded. Congratulations were exchanged on the past, and hopes expressed for the future. Several other toasts were drunk, among them, "The Annex," and songs were given by various gentlemen. Altogether, the dinner passed off very enjoyably, and many gentlemen expressed the hope that the custom might be continued in the future, not only as being an additional incentive...
...Yale crew hope to beat Harvard next year by a new stroke, which is pronounced by some who have seen it to be the first practical stroke Yale has ever adopted. The old hang at the end of the stroke is abolished, and several crooked little points are also done away with. In the new stroke, the reach is shorter than heretofore, to insure a strong and steady grip of the water, and to save the additional exertion formerly used in putting the blade back. In feathering, the blade will be horizontal instead of at an angle of forty-five...
...society lines. It is one unpleasant feature of our college life, that society and class feeling are inevitably opposed to each other. But Harvard is less open to this evil than most colleges, and the class of '80 is less open to it than most classes. Therefore we hope that the little society feeling which does exist will be entirely laid aside during the class election. The idea that each society must be represented among the class officers by any definite number of men is absurd; and if such an idea is carried out in voting, the result will...
...consider whether it would not make more money by letting rooms for a price which it can get than by keeping them vacant at a price which it cannot get? With the best interests of the College at heart, we are sincerely glad that these rooms are vacant, and hope that they will continue so as long as the present unjust and unwise policy of high prices is continued...
...view of the present dispute over Yale's claim to the base-ball championship, I take the liberty of proposing the following plan to the consideration of our base-ball men, not with the intention or expectancy of originating anything new, but with the hope of drawing out expressions of opinion from others, and in this way of accomplishing the desired...