Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...others. Moreover, the concert this year promises some unusually good features. Besides the dance after the concert, Mr. Van Raalte is to be violin soloist, and a quartette from the Glee Club will sing. With these special attractions added to the numerous selections of the Pierian itself, we may expect a really enjoyable evening...
...winter has fairly past, and, although we may expect frequent cold days, and more snowstorms, it can safely be predicted that they will not greatly interfere with rowing. For the crews to get out on the river so early is indeed fortunate, and it is therefore none too soon for us to call the attention of all who are interested in boating to the many improvements that have been made at the boat-house. The facilities for accommodating oarsmen are greater than ever before. New singles are to be provided for those who prefer them to rowing in the class...
...they further resemble that excellent machine in being unable to change their ideas. Are they dogmatic? Good gracious, no! They are the most liberal men in the world, as long as you don't try to argue with them. They like to tell the old, old stories, and expect you to laugh, and they assure you that life is vapid unless spent in mastering their subject. Most of them have written a text-book which they recommend to you as the best - ah me! There is modesty even...
...sadly deficient among us. Men will not enter unless they are pretty well convinced that they will get a prize; in other words, they are afraid of failing. Cases are common at every meeting where men withdraw at the last moment because some one whom they did not expect, has entered. To win one race at Harvard has been sufficient, in the past, to scare all other competitors out of the field for that event, and the result has been continual "walk-overs" for the lucky few. No doubt, it is unpleasant to lose in a contest, but there...
...lower the tone of all college organizations, and subject them to slurs similar to those cast on the honesty of professionals, while it offers no advantage to offset the harm it is sure to do. Whatever college resorts to the expedient of playing professionals on their team, should not expect to enter for an amateur championship. It is not too late to come to an understanding in the particular case referred to, and it is none too early for Harvard to set the example of adhering strictly to amateurs in the composition of college organizations...