Word: trusting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understand the case aright, Harvard is today more nearly in a position favorable to her own interests than she has been at any time during the last few years. Heretofore scarcely a football season has passed without some disagreeable controversy. The climax came this year. If we may trust our past experience, then, the action which we took in withdrawing cannot be so bad in its consequences as pur continuation in the league another year would almost necessarily have been. If worst comes to worst under the present circumstances, our condition will still remain better than before our withdrawal...
...practice alluded to is one which I am afraid is only too common, and if Harvard is engaged in it I trust you will aid me in putting a stop to it by giving me the information asked...
...would be strange if with our large classes we could not find more good men than a college of fewer numbers. But the difficulties of getting those men to work are great. The captain can have only a limited acquaintance in his class, and must trust to the men to respond to his calls printed in the CRIMSON. But many good men hesitate about offering themselves; some, through modesty, others through indifference; I have heard men say even in November "they thought the crew had been chosen;" some have an idea that assessments are levied on the candidates...
...adding us to raise the fund necessary to perpetuate the memory of the patriot whose thrilling utterance "The union must and shall be preserved," is now the watchword of this grand republic. I hand you bye laws, Governor Taylor's endorsement. etc., Awaiting your early and we sincerely trust, favorable reply, I am, dear sirs...
...should give up their personal comfort to try for the teams, train, or at least applaud on the field. "Imogene Donahue" was followed by a short speech from Dr. F. M. Weld, '60. He said that he understood Harvard's recent action to mean that she is unwilling to trust her teams to a committee composed of outsiders. He had no fears about Harvard's being left alone. Mr. S. E. Winslow, '85, was then introduced. After some witty remarks, he gave his theory for Yale's success that their faculty, graduates, and undergraduates pulled together, while at Harvard they...