Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Nine of the Andover eleven expect to enter Yale next year...
...reality. It cannot afford to have the credit of success and let other people pay for it. Probably there are gentlemen in Boston who would not suffer them to cast ridicule instead of honor upon the college by failing through lack of money. Perhaps we may reasonably expect some outside backing, as the sum needed is not small; but it would be humiliating if we had to ask for it either in small or large amounts...
...hear nothing further in regard to the plan for an annual international boat-race, the expenses of the competing American crew to be paid by Harvard and Yale. When we proposed this plan, it was with certain misgivings that it was rather chimerical to expect a defeated Yale to help send Harvard across the Atlantic, or a defeated Harvard to pay the expenses of victorious Yale. However, we believe, and shall adhere to one belief, that such an arrangement would be by far the most praiseworthy and satisfactory if it could be put into operation...
...notice from the communication in to-day's issue that there is good reason to expect that Harvard and Yale will meet on the field in still another branch of athletics. We congratulate the cricket club on its bright prospects for the ensuing year and we trust that it will uphold its past record and add one more to the list of Harvard victories. The cricket eleven certainly deserves better recognition form the students than it has received in the past. We sincerely trust that the managers of the eleven will succeed in their attempt to arrange a game...
...report of the Yale-Harvard game in time for Friday's issue, it has seemed best to the editors of the CRIMSON to suspend publication on Friday. Thanksgiving Day is of course a holiday, so that the next issue of the CRIMSON will appear on Saturday next, when we expect to have a full and trustworthy account of the football game...