Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Princeton Board of Athletic Control held this afternoon the Board voted unanimously to sever athletic relations with Harvard in all sports. We have been forced to the conviction that it is impossible at present to expect from athletic competition with Harvard that spirit of cordial good will between undergraduates of two universities which should characterize athletic sports. Unless athletic competition between college tends to introduce a feeling of generous chivalry and mutual respect, there can be no valid reason for its continuance Competition carried on in an atmosphere of suspicion and ill will of necessity falls short...
Then you can't expect to have me shedding...
...also unnecessarily hard on children and their parents to put before them sloppily stacked tons of juvenile literature and expect them to choose between what is absurd and what is artistic, entertaining, instructive...
...those who are sincerely interested in scholarship and who are planning to go no with productive work. The other class--an equally worthy one--is made up of those who are seeking by graduate work to improve their position or to secure some positing and that do not expect to do any productive work...
...Coolidge and Prosperity," and sounds pleasant to wealthy manufacturers, to rock-bound farmers, to red-brick- and-green-shutter folk from the Berkshire Hills to Cape Cod. Senator Butler has been caricatured as beseeching Heaven to send the President and Mrs. Coolidge to Northampton, to cast their votes. They expect...