Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutorial establishment, to make its very existence dependent on the quality of its direction. It will mean treading on a great many well-polished toes. It is, admittedly, no task for an undecided executive. Perhaps it is too much to ask of one man. But Harvard has learned to expect great things of her presidents. She will expect him to recognize in this present instance a dangerous tendency, particularly dangerous since it attacks a youthful institution. She will expect him to take a decisive stand, and to explain his position clearly. She has not been trained to tolerate equivocation...
...resulting from such events as an act of God, settled with the 20 French and 20 British companies which wrote the insurance. "We are getting," boasted the syndicate's imaginative publicity man, "$12,000 for every night that the casino is obliged to remain closed this season. We expect that it will be rebuilt and reopened...
...beer will be served in the dining halls. It will be a long time coming, it will require changes in the state laws and in the University's attitude, but it will come; it will be dictated by the kind of club dining which students have been led to expect in the Houses. Until that happy day, the University may follow one of two roads. It may lag behind, play safe, and cling to its 'scutcheen. Or it may take the lead in teaching its students temperance by allowing them to indulge in quiet, legal drinking with their meals...
...Roosevelt feels such action would be to Haitian bondholders." It is understood this means Haitian bondholders living in the United States. President Roosevelt added that the United States would welcome any refunding agreement which Haiti may arrange that is satisfactory to the bondholders. What more could those Haitians expect...
According to an announcement made yesterday, intramural debating, conducted in the same manner as intramural athletics, will soon be established. By the end of next week Victor H. Kramer '35 and Edward M. Rowe '27, newly appointed director of debating, expect to be able to choose a squad from each house including Phillips Brooks and to arrange a schedule so that debating may be began as soon as possible...