Word: expect
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Williams University crew have been rowing on the Charles River during the present week, in order to be under the supervision of Mr. P. C. Chandler of the Class of '72 at Williams. The crew have used the boats of the Matthews Club during the week, but they expect to get their shell from Blakey to-day. They are at a training table at Memorial Hall, and express themselves very well satisfied with the fare...
...morning, and in the afternoon to Watertown and back. This evening at 6.30 they will row over the Union Boat-House Course on time, in their new shell. The crew will return to Williams next week, to pass their annual examinations, and on the 3d of July they expect to go to Saratoga...
...been the practice in American colleges, until within a few years, to make as many rules as possible for the guidance of students, and to expect them blindly to obey. In German institutions, on the other hand, the greatest possible liberty is given the student, and the formation of his character is left to depend entirely upon himself. Both plans are open to censure. The first, by depriving the student of all voluntary power, does not teach him to rely upon himself. The second gives him so much liberty,- at the youthful and inexperienced age at which most students enter...
...however, only renders more evident the bareness of their edges, where all the grass has been worn away by the feet of those students who are already asserting the privilege of American citizens to despise all warnings to "Keep off the grass." It would not seem too much to expect that the students should do all that is in their power to make the Yard look well, especially when all that is required of them is to walk only in the paths and to be careful not to drop papers and other rubbish out-of-doors. The "landscape-gardener...
...shifting, unsettled, and insincere; can we expect that its art should not be so too? Men of to-day are confused by the magnitude and the number of the questions which Religion, Science, Literature, and Philosophy put to them so sharply and so remorselessly. Is it strange, then, that they are without convictions, and therefore fail...