Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...just here on the part of Princeton laymen we would ask Dr. Holmes, when he is in good humor at his breakfast table, to explain to us how he can expect a dry creed ever to learn anything. A creed is a belief. How can a belief learn to be anything but a belief? As for Harvard being able to burn up the old beliefs, we doubt it. The truth is she is attempting to do so, and, unfortunately, giving us nothing in their place. - Mobile Register...
...foot-ball discussion. If the perverse spirit of Yale will be kind and considerate this time, and condescending enough to come down from so lofty a station, and meet Princeton half way, the clouds will forever he cleared away. We need not then expect in the fall of 1887 to witness a repetition of the hackneyed and puerile squabble with which we have been burdened for so long a time. We pray and hope for the best...
...from the college. The permanent form which the trophy will take, will not only conduce to a permanently higher grade of play but ought to be a reason for liberal subscriptions. When men are willing to pay without hesitation for the current expenses of their respective teams, we should expect even more willingness in aid of such a perpetual emblem. Then too, no other sport has so many advantages as tennis. The hundreds of enthusiasts in the sport should make the collection of the sum required an easy matter. Friends of tennis then, come forward and give to the college...
...decision of the foot-ball association in regard to the championship for 1886 is so little of a decision that we may expect to see the discussion of 1884 repeated with even greater vehemence than ever...
Fourth, that Princeton has the right to expect Yale to meet the same conditions this year as Princeton met last year, as to both grounds and place...