Word: expect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...team work as there was last year, the eleven does not work together, but each man works too much for himself-and that individual work is not always brilliant. The interference is wretched, and few successful attempts are made at blocking off, while the centre is not what we expect or what we can have with the material at hand. The team does not lack snap or energy to any marked extent, but it is this great want of team work and a too great reliance on a few brilliant individual plays that is one chief fault. Above all, this...
...difficulty is here; there is a feeling in the minds of many of our older graduates against the New York games. If a game in which Harvard played there should be attended by any scandals, I should expect the Corporation and Overseers to interdict any further playing in New York. For this reason we suggested a two year's arrangements in foot ball with you, regarding the New York game as experimental...
...matters now stand, Harvard does not expect a game with Princeton this year. It rests with Princeton to decide as to the future...
...stand. What has doubtless prejudiced people against Harvard on this question has been the weak and unsatisfactory explanation which the great majority of students are forced to make when asked right out and out to justify the stand which Harvard has taken. Experience has taught us to expect misrepresentation from the press of the country, but it is even more exasperating to think that owing to our own failure to get at the bottom of things, we have often caused misunderstanding. The good that one can do by presenting to his friends a clear and reasonable statement of all that...
...hear a man who has travelled and lived in the Orient, is a rare opportunity in Cambridge; to hear one who has spent two winters there digging for remains of one of the oldest civilizations is rarer still. We may tonight expect from Dr. Peters an account of his heroic and successful struggle against many odds, and of the valuable discoveries which he made in the temple of Bel at Niffer. His success in raising a large sum of money for the expedition, in overcoming diplomatic and other difficulties, and in securing for America a large portion of the clay...