Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...assurance, rather than to any other cause, is to be attributed the number of base-hits made by Yale. That we were beaten fairly and squarely by far superior batting is an undeniable fact; yet, after the brilliant games played by our Nine with other clubs, and with the prospect of having Tyng's services in the next game, we ought not to despair for the future...
This was the spirit, I fancy, in which a great many went to the concert; and as I went up the steps, I own that the prospect was gloomy. However, once in the house, near some very pretty faces, I could no longer remain in my cynical mood...
...cannot take part in the race on May 25. No reply has been received from the Jamaica Plain Club. Although the project of a combination regatta has not met with the encouragement and support from the amateur clubs of Boston and vicinity which was expected, there is a fair prospect of our having two interesting races. The single-sculls will attract no little attention, and the Union and Harvard four-oars ought to make a good race. It is a matter of regret, however, that none of the associations challenged is willing to send a six-oared crew. The race...
...Advocate, last spring, gave us news of the opening week of the Turco-Russian War, and the Yale News now gives us a summary of events in one of the last weeks, condensed into ten lines, and closing with this comment: "Gloomy prospect for the Paris Exposition and European tourists...
...would be natural to expect that men who had themselves experienced the difficulties attendant upon a midyear grind would so far appreciate the " demnitionness" of it as to allow others privileges they may choose to deny themselves. At twelve o' clock P. M., with the prospect of four hours' steady work before me, and with the (at another time) joyful sound of revelry in the room below me, I waive all respect of persons, and protest against the fiends of the north entry of Matthews, who prevent my neighbors and myself from doing necessary work. I had supposed, it seems...