Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From past performances, if scores mean anything, I think Yale with victories over Dartmouth, Army, and Princeton ought to enter the game a favorite, and I hope it does for from a psychological point that will give the Harvard team a distinct advantage...
...that is all done with and belongs to the past. A season has gone into the shades and another emerges in all its pristine glory. The Vagabond the new era with rousing spirit and a new hope of festive occasion. For it is here...
Owing to the kindness of Mr. Frederick W. Vanderbilt Y '76S we have acquire all the property on the block on which stands Byers Hall and the Vanderbilt dormitories, and we hope it will be possible in the near future to complete this quadrangle as earlier planned, to the great relief of the Scientific School...
...many Princeton undergraduates that one game represented the hope of an education. There were scores who worked their way through college by betting each year against Harvard. And in the homes of Princeton graduates from the classes before the break one could note rich rugs, fur coats, and electric pianos. They were prosperous enough to afford luxuries. Indeed, in one Princeton home I saw a book, and when any man from old Nassau goes in for literature you may be sure that he is treading on velvet and that he doesn't care how he squanders his money...
...will be difficult, in fact it will be next to impossible, to convince the officials, the alumni, and the adherents of the small colleges that they are pursuing a course entirely divergent from the trend of progressive and modern education--that they cannot hope to compete on an equal footing with the larger universities in teaching. Sentiment, tradition, and college loyalty are factors against which even the most logical arguments can hardly hope to prevail. These intangible feelings alone are a guarantee of the continuance of the small college, and their disbanding may be considered a thing...