Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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This morning Harvard University begins the two hundred and fifty-fifth year of its existence. With a glorious record behind it and every prospect of material prosperity ahead the outlook is encouraging in the extreme. Today it will incorporate as a constituent part of itself the largest number of men ever gathered together in one class, who for the next four years will share its fortunes, and rejoice at its successes, both academic and athletic. The freshman class, which today finds the college a novelty and a curiosity, will, as its predecessors always have done, soon experience that affection which...
...stay, and has heard many innovations threatened for future years. She has the satisfaction of feeling that they were all steps in advance, reforms tending to make Harvard a liberal university. She will leave Harvard not yet fully reorganized, but with a definite policy before her and a bright prospect for the future...
Ninety entered in a period of athletic gloom, and has the satisfaction of seeing a new spirit infused into Harvard sports and one championship gained, with a good prospect for another. She may hope even more for next year than for this, and for still greater success in the following years, when the new spirit and facilities have made their influence felt to their full extent...
...others can spare a day for the trip. The nine has won the first game against Yale. With proper support there ought to be no question of the second. Judged by the number of university players on the team, no class for years has had so good a prospect of winning. The team has won the class championship, and ought to have the confidence of the class of '93. United and enthusiastic cheering can do a great deal toward winning at New Haven. Ninety-three ought to leave nothing undone to help their nine. No freshman class since...
...long been the desire of the authorities to open up the land deeded by Mr. Longfellow, but the cost of filling in the marshes as well as the prospect of unsatisfactory results in case a dike were built, has a ways deterred them. It has been estimated that to fill in the Longfellow land would cost at least four thousand dollars an acre. This new gift, however, is situated on high ground, four feet above the water level. It accordingly affords ample room for all present development and at the some time it will be easy gradually to extend quarters...