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Word: expectation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...well-known fact that the apparatus in our old gymnasium is not what it should be, not what we should expect to find in a well-regulated gymnasium, and the idea of again making use of these old-fashioned fixings is absurd. We want better, and if better is not given us we may as well continue to use our old gymnasium with all its inconveniences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...boats that can be improved and developed in time. The impression left on the reader's mind is that Oxford is disappointed in her trials, and that her 'Varsity next Easter will not be the crew that she would like to enter in an international regatta. "We hardly expect the crew," says the Gazette, "to be quite so good as that of last spring, which was one of the fastest on record; but, as they all have good style to start with, they ought to get well together; and they are fairly, though not exceptionally, strong." All this is very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD TRIAL EIGHTS. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...Abbott Courant says that the Crimson's editorials are "short, sensible, and to the point." We are pleased with the Courant's editorials, but we cannot literally return the compliment, for they certainly are not short, - they cover nearly twelve pages. But who could be so unreasonable as to expect short editorials from lady editors? They are well written, entertaining, and full of gossip Another feminine feature of the Courant is the publication of the marriage of graduates of Abbott Academy. Proud, happy graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

...settled all Harvard's claims to oarsmanship and independence, he proceeds to open the floodgate of his scorn on Yale, and fairly inundates that hapless college with charges of cowardice, etc., etc. He says Yale found in 1875 that it was folly for her to row with Cornell, and expect to win honors, and so backed out of the R. A. A. C. and now, in refusing to row Cornell in eight-oars, she shows the same lack of courage. If this gentleman really believes what he has written, he must have an unlimited faculty for swallowing utter nonsense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

...graduated. Some people thought that he would have lost it if his father had not been a benefactor of the college. A few even went so far as to whisper that a degree should not be for sale at any price. However, there are always grumblers, and one cannot expect to please everybody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STORY OF A BAD YOUNG MAN. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

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