Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Needless to say, the magnitude of the new project on which the College is embarking makes any analysis of Mr. Plimpton's precise duties well-nigh impossible. Those who have conceived the new position expect him to spend the rest of this year investigating; the entire employment situation before embarking on definite policies...
...while the Freshman is treated with this amused disdain on one side, he is overwhelmed with solicitations on the other. No wonder the poor devil does not know what to expect...
Indeed, ever since the righteous days of Cotton Mather, Harvard men have attended afternoon Hygience lectures with all the zest of a courtesan at a prayer meeting. It was probably too much to expect that even a new regime in the Hygiene Building could change over-night the traditional attitude of Harvard men towards the subject of health. In view of this feeling demonstrated again day before yesterday in New Lecture Hall, Dr. Bock's abolition of the voluntary lectures appears as a logical, though unfortunate, course of action...
...hand, apparently had decided just to let matters slide until they found out if the Guffey Bill was constitutional. No less imperturbable, the miners and their estimated 1.000,000 dependants figured that they would not lose much 'by going on the relief rolls for a while. ("Certainly our people expect relief," said President John L. Lewis of United Mine Workers.) In this atmosphere the strike had been called when neither side would budge over a wage concession which would have lifted the whole industry's pay roll less than $17,000 a day. But after lengthy haggling during the strike...
...student's term bill. This fee will be charged whether or not the student takes the examination, and remitted only if he notifies the Assistant Dean in charge of Records, 3 University Hall, in writing, at least two weeks before the date of an examination that he does not expect to take...