Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greater than that accorded to the students even in our most advanced and liberal colleges in America. The authorities exert absolutely no control over his actions or his studies-chief of all,-there are no parietal regulations. The result can more readily be imagined than described. Parents do not expect their sons to do anything but drink and loaf during the first year at the University-and their expectations are fully reached. The young fellows who wish to be at all prominent in the social life of the University town, join the famous "Corps" which are secret organizations formed...
...lectures were proposed. For anything else I am not responsible. Let the tutor drill the boys.' Every college professor of history will sympathize with Mr. Sparks' view and be glad to see it put into practice. Mr. Sparks did his own work thoroughly and conscientiously, but he did not expect much from "the boys." Like them, he thought examination a good deal of a bore. He was a genial and extremely popular man, and when he became president the students always felt that he was on their side. His was a large and generous idea...
...confident that this healthy, manly spirit which is appearing so prominently will result in bettering many of the relations of college life. While it is well to set our aims very high, we must not allow ourselves to be carried so far by the present reaction as to expect that those differences which exist in every community of men with "diversified functions" shall be wiped out of the life at Harvard. The communication which appears in our columns this morning points out an undoubted evil, and its writer does wisely to call attention to it. However, it is well...
...base-ball cage will be ready for use the first of next term, and Captain Wagenhust will get his men at work at once upon their return from the holidays. Princeton's prospects have never been brighter in baseball, and, barring accidents, we expect to give the champions a hard rub for the pennant next spring...
...this fall there was latent a real determination to alone for our past disgrace. This feeling has now become a frank, open one and already there is an upheaval of the old forms. If every senior class will hold to worthy ideals, as eighty-eight does now, we may expect in the future victory and optimism, instead of defeat and pessimism...