Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of candidates for the Mott Haven team is increasing every day. There are upwards of 140 men in training, most of whom do their work in the afternoon. The men who train in the morning almost all expect to enter the B. A. A. games on Feb. 14. For the last few days these men have been running on time. The best time for 75 yards on the board walk was made by Moen-8 seconds...
...certainly in the last year as many as 25 per cent." In the great increase in the number of students the proportion going into the learned professions has declined. "The superficial examinations which I have been able to make," said he, "go to confirm what, a priori, we should expect; that the-question of the length of the college course must be determined somewhat by considering the class whose culture will not be so well taken care of in their future pursuits as that of the lawyer and clergyman. If business is to absorb the energies of many...
Articles such as these, which clearly demonstrate the advantages at the disposal of Harvard men and the active use that is made of them, should be widely circulated. But as long as snarling dailies throughout the country continue their malicious attacks, Harvard must expect constant misrepresentation which the truth, as set forth in Mr. Bigelow's article, can only weaken, not obliterate...
...urge anyone to attend this dinner, for all know how much benefit always is derived from such an event. It is also plain that in order to provide comfortable accommodations and avoid a great crush, the committee must know by tonight at the very latest how many to expect. It will therefore be more convenient, to say the least, if everyone signs right away...
...melancholy truth that certain students in Harvard College continually violate the confidence reposed in the whole body by the authorities at Gore Hall. When men are allowed wide freedom with the reserved volumes belonging to the University, it seems only reasonable to expect them to feel, from a sense of honor, some responsibility in the use of said books. Yet such is not the case. It is a frequent occurrence for a valuable book to disappear from the shelves just before important thesis are due in some course. The book sometimes reappears a few days after the theses have been...