Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the advisor must be the keystone of the whole structure. If he is timid and diffident, his advisers are certainly more so; if after two or three years of college he still lacks the confidence to invade a Freshman's rooms and make himself at home, he cannot expect such assurance on the part of the advisee. And if he has no great faith in his own advice, he may be sure that no one else has. But in any case, whether he gives good advice or bad upon his energy, his willingness to get up and grapple with...
...These concerts on the steps of Widener are always the most popular that the Glee Club gives, and this year we expect to have an exceptionally large number of men singing both in the club and in the audience," Dr. A. T. Davison '06 told a CRIMSON reporter, when asked to comment on the first of the Glee Club's Yard concerts, which comes at 7 o'clock tonight. "We have attempted the impossible in trying to find a program that every one will like, but I think that the numbers will please most...
...Roland, for instance, dying in the Roncesvalles, is far more appealing to the imagination than any wholly man made fairy tale. If one can believe, no matter how faintly, in what one reads and hears, interest increases to a surprising extent. While it is of course impossible to expect a sudden passion for the study of Greek similar to that which seized Italy during the Renaissance, it is not unreasonable to predict that the perusal of the Iliad and the Odyssey may be taken up in future with a slightly greater degree of enthusiastic abandon than has prevailed heretofore...
...should be a better cook than a politician? He or she, gets his living on delicacies compounded from the melting pot. But on the other hand who would expect a politician to write a cook book? He, or she, gets his living by keeping his recipes to himself...
...heaven-storming masterpiece. Based on a poem* by Alfred Noyes, which first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, it tells, in music, the tale of the return to earth of the spirits of soldiers slain in the late War. Instead of the solemn masses, purity, virtue, which they expect to find as a result of their sacrifices, they discover shameful and riotous dancing, sinful and boisterous merrymaking. The music is a fairly effective translation of this situation into sound. The mood throughout is one of gruesome hilarity. Ordinary dance-rhythms alternate with the booming of guns and the spirited tarantaras...