Word: expect
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Senior Class Committee expect that Pach the photographer will be here very shortly. He has been detained to serve on a jury...
...this announcement is made so early, nearly two months before the first day's tournament, and three weeks before the Mid-year examinations, there can be no excuse for not entering the contests in earnest. Every one will expect to see a first-class meeting, and it is to be hoped that there will be no disappointment of expectation. If men will train sufficiently, there is no reason why this tournament should not be even more interesting than those of preceding years...
CARTOONS are now in order with college papers. The Courant has tried two, and the Era has depicted the disastrous effects that the cap and gown produces on Ithaca's inhabitants. As the mania seems to be travelling westward, we may expect the next thing in this line to be a picture of the Niagara Index board...
...Yale Courant contains an excellent article on "The Sphere of Criticism." Another, entitled "As Regards Eating," is tolerably amusing, though it gives us rather a startling idea of the company Yale men expect to meet at dinner-parties. The Editors of the Courant are disturbed in their minds because what they "considered a harmless joke - to the effect that there were twenty insane persons in the Senior Class - has been copied, in sober earnest, into nearly every college paper, large or small, in the country." The characteristic American amusement of telling untruths which are not meant to be believed...
...expect to be pretty well mangled at an examination, but to be killed outright is a little more than most men bargain for. Last Monday morning there was an examination held in U. E. R., where there had been evidently no fire since last February. We would mildly suggest to the Faculty, proctors, janitor, or to whomsoever the duty belonged of putting the room in order for the examination, that on their or his head lies the responsibility of more colds in the head, sore-throats, and catarrh than is pleasant to think...