Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asking too much of human nature to expect a missionary to argue the futility of foreign missions, or to look to an English member of the Indian Civil Service to urge the cause of native independence. In the American Review of Reviews for December "A British Official" speaks true to type in defending English dominion in India. Strong upon his shoulders presses the weight of "the white man's burden" when he writes that "the people of India in the mass realize that they cannot do without English protection and rule...
...editors asked of excitable Henrik Willem Van Loon, whilom college professor. Said he : "It is really quite useless, my writing upon this subject. Whenever I open my mouth and say something about football, the answering chorus is, 'Oh well, but how could we expect a poor foreigner to under stand our national game?' ... I have nothing against the stadia (or stadiums or stadiumses, or whatever you wish to call them in an un-Greek age). This is a free world. Go ahead and build all the stadiums and hooch-factories and bawdey-houses you wish, but do not build them...
...evening the whole crew would listen to the radio, which certainly was a blessing. I never would go North again without one. On my trip next summer, on which we intend to establish a permanent station for the study of terrestrial magnetism, I expect to have a much larger and more powerful radio equipment on board...
...publishers hope to have the work adopted for use in English courses at colleges and secondary schools throughout the country. In this way they expect to extend the teaching of Professor Copeland beyond the limits of the University to the country at large...
...hockey season will get under way tonight with a meeting of all candidates in the Smith Halls Common Room at 7 o'clock. Captain Beals and J. H. Dempsey '23 are listed to speak, and all men who expect to report for hockey are expected to be present. Candidates for Freshmen hockey manager will report at the H. A. A. today at 1.30 o'clock...