Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...night, had taken up the "Verses from the Advocate." I could hear the wind blowing round the corner of the house, the snow beating against the window-panes, and the whistle of the draught in the chimney. In such a night and at that late hour I did not expect any one would drop in. I was therefore rather surprised when I heard a knock at my door, and saw a stranger come in. His appearance was certainly remarkable. He was young, but dressed in a very old fashion. Buff boots and black-velvet knickerbockers adorned his legs, while...
...course you know, during your first year or two at college, you cannot expect to mingle with the gay world as if you were a grown man. Even the delightful assemblies of which I spoke are, or used to be, closed to you. At the same time you can expect to know a reasonable number of ladies, and if you take advantage of the introductions which I took the trouble to procure for you, you can expect to know ladies whose acquaintance will be not only agreeable, but also useful to you, as you grow to be an older...
...fame." It may be queried how Harvard could initiate a series of Oxford-Cambridge races, and how a thing could pass the high flood (whatever that may be) of its anything. "The Muse's Last Visit" to the Argus was anything but pleasant, and from the following we shall expect to see no more poetry in that paper...
...voted to send challenges to various other college clubs, and we may reasonably expect to witness this fall some fine games with Yale, Columbia, Tufts, and perhaps Princeton. The outlook for the Foot-Ball Team is excellent, and the great reputation it has won in the last four years is not at all likely to suffer...
...were not, last year, as enthusiastic over our crew as we should have been, is an admitted fact, and this gives a reason for the existence of such charges in regard to the training of the crew as are made in the letter referred to. No one can expect men to be very rigid in their self-discipline when it makes no apparent difference to others whether or no they are strict with themselves. We have this year a captain who is fully alive to the responsibility of his position. It is for the rest of us now to make...