Word: expect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...case, for the trouble is widespread and has been noticed by every instructor in the course." This looks very much as if the bare truth, disagreeable though it be, were simply that the standard of the course is not as high as the instructors have a right to expect or the students seem so fondly to believe...
...defeat of Saturday affords little ground for discouragement to those interested in Harvard's athletic welfare. The winning spirit was shown and if it is kept up, as there is every reason to expect that it will be, it is sure to bring its reward sooner or later. Those who are inclined fallaciously to assume a connection between this and other defeats, and to look gloomily on the future,- if there are any such-are as unworthy of being Harvard men as they are devoid of every essential quality of sportsmen...
...moment anything but clean and manly football, it would be far better for the sport that it were not played, and not a few would feel like losing faith in their own expressed convictions as to the healthiness of the game. We have every reason to expect that the contest will be beyond all question in this regard...
...nine exactly fitted to take Whittemore's place as captain, and so the athletic committee took the matter of electing one in their own hands, and that is how the case stands now. Nothing has been done as yet, except to refer the case to a sub-committee who expect sometime before Christmas to choose a head coach for the nine. He will take entire charge of the candidates until sometime in the spring when the nine has practically been chosen and then the team will choose their own captain from amongst their number...
...championship adds greatly to the interest which the College will take in the series, and to the intensity of class feeling which it will arouse. Another exciting game may be looked for this afternoon between the two lower classes, and whichever side wins, there is good reason to expect that their final match with ninety-seven will make a worthy ending to this highly satisfactory series...