Word: expectantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the more reputable of the brethren, who do not write theses for hire, and who try in some measure to teach, have never pulled their weight in the boat here. It is perhaps too much to expect, if not too much to hope, that the Questionnaire should be the beginning of the end. RED RIDING HOOD
...Century bishop. In the 11th Century, Italians of Bari stole his body, built a basilica about it, attributed to the saint many a miracle. St. Nicholas became the patron of Russia, Greece, the Kingdom of Naples, Sicily, Lorraine, Limerick, of children, pawnbrokers, mariners, coopers, brewers. Children came to expect secret gifts from St. Nicholas on the eve of his feast (Dec. 6). This far from notable bishop did indeed become a public character when the gift-giving was transferred to Christmas Day. His now familiar garb is of Russian origin, his U. S. name a corruption of the Dutch...
...Russia. In its sequel, Retreat From Glory, he described his post-War disillusionment, a long-drawn-out affair involving debts and dissipations in the Balkans, that left him looking dolefully on the modern world and suffering from an understandable fatigue. Readers of those two books who have come to expect from Bruce Lockhart well-bred accounts of international intrigue are likely to be disappointed with Return to Malaya. It is a record of his visit, with funds that the success of British Agent provided, to the Eastern Islands where he had spent three years as a young...
True, it would be nice to have such a uniform athletic policy around here, but if it can only be obtained by a letting down of our own standards, it is hardly worth the candle. One would need a singular degree of optimism to expect all the gentlemen around us, now the proud possessors of the best football teams that money can buy, immediately to metamorphose into little angels. Virtue will, in all probability, continue to be its own reward...
...outset one premise must be established. It is that in athletics, as in anything else, Harvard does not live in a world by itself. It is unfair to expect Harvard players to oppose imported musclemen. It is equally unfair to expect the H.A.A. continually to oppose small, vociferous groups of victory-minded alumni. Yet the rising tide of professionalism puts just such burdens on players and officials, makes increasingly difficult a simon-pure athletic existence...