Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have also to acknowledge the favors shown by Harvard College to me personally in the matter of a degree, and could expect nothing further. But the fact remains that on the occasion of an important anniversary the good-will shown so other institutions all about us was withheld from Princeton, which I was invited to represent. I acknowledge that Harvard had a right to bestow its honors where it choses, but, surrounded as I am by a body of professors carrying on an original research and printing their results for the public in books and periodicles, I thought it strange...
...what he sows. If there is any lesson that history teaches us it is this fact. We may deceive ourselves into fancied security, but this law will always find us out. The subject divides itself into four divisions upon which emphasis ought to be put, namely, that everyone must expect to reap what he sows, the same kind of seed and more than he sows, and finally that ignorance of the seed does not make the result any less certain...
...eleven has gone to Princeton practically unsupported. The game does not occur until to-morrow afternoon, so there is yet time for those who have been negligent or those who have as yet been undecided. The result of the game will be much closer than many expect. A possible victory ought not be turned to defeat for lack of enthusiastic spectators...
...borne a transparency bearing the legend - "We are John Harvard; take your pick." A second bore two verses from Holmes' celebrated poem about "the freshman class of one," while the third, and most amusing, read as follows: "We are the oldest living undergraduates; We entered in 1657 and expect to graduate in 1887; Disfigured, but still in the ring; We live in hope...
Yesterday was, however, especially set aside for the members of the Law School, and the oration delivered to them by the Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in Sanders Theatre, fulfilled in every way all that even the most exacting could expect of one of Harvard's most distinguished sons. The dinner tendered the graduates of the Law School by its present members brought back many pleasant reminiscences of the past, when all were once plunged in the mysteries of Blacks' one and Kent. Yet the first day, pleasant as it was, has but paved the way for the still more...