Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard coaching staff does not expect to start the game against Brown next Saturday with many, if any, of the men who started the game with Princeton. Their purpose is to avoid possible injuries to first-string men and to give the substitutes who may be used against Yale experience in a hard game. Under these circumstances, although the team which will start will be by no means a weak one, the management feels that it ought to give both graduates and the public who have purchased tickets with the expectation of seeing first-string men start the game...
...clearly understood that we neither desire nor expect to vote for senators or members of the House of Representatives; they are the representatives of the people of Massachusetts. But the privilege of voting for the president is a thing so vital to all of us who are devoted to the higher interest of the nation and eager to play an honorable part in the great experiment of democratic government upon this continent that it appears more than probable that, with sufficient energy and able leadership, the legislature of Massachusetts will be prevailed upon to act favorably on a petition...
...also good for those who think that without genius they may, through system, reach the stars. But for the humdrum it is dangerous. The editorial on football says nothing new but it is gaily written in a style which precludes all serious influence, and which we are accustomed to expect in the Lampoon...
...extensive experience in newspaper and magazine work, having contributed to the Atlantic Monthly and the World's Work, as well as the daily presses of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wilmington, Boston and New York. He professes unusual ideas on the teaching of English composition, so that literary candidates may expect to hear some unusual advice...
...apparently, have been under the impression that the three hours set aside each week would be the only requirements of the course. As a matter of fact, in addition to these three hours, covering lectures, section work and drill, considerable outside reading and study will be necessary. Students cannot expect to receive credit for a full course toward a degree without the application which Harvard normally requires for the successful completion of any course. So far as the course in Military Science and Tactics 1 is concerned, I shall exact, if practicable, the same standards...