Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Now that the Conference Committee has ended its consideration of the marking system, the question may fairly be asked, how far it has fulfilled its purposes; to what extent it has satisfied student expectation. We see that much criticism of its non action has been ill-timed, when we recognize the difficulties connected with the subject with which it has to deal. Before any conclusion leading to an improvement of our status could be arrived at, much time necessarily was consumed. Hasty action would have been very undesirable. But we did expect the committee, taking...
...evil to their notice, in a manner in which it has never before been presented, from the side of student conviction. The marking system is one that must be remedied by more careful and mature thought, than that of the student members of the conference. Students can not expect to originate a plan for marking that will recommend itself to professors who have lived for years in the atmosphere of marks, and have made special study of methods of teaching and of college discipline. While this side of the question may be true, it is none the less true that...
...falsely reported case of smallpox has got into the college press as we feared. The Princetonian starts the dance, and we shall expect to find it taken up in turn by all of our fifty exchanges...
With the advent of a new term and the new year, it is in order to frame new resolutions. Of course we have gone with the rest and have led our friends to expect marked changes in our conduct. As it is not modest, however, to talk of ourselves, we would turn our attention to others, and would speak of a few new year's resolutions, which would, we think, benefit our friends. First, are the overseers capable of turning over a new leaf? Appearances say, no; but, as appearances are often deceitful, we would hope...
...generous enough to believe he does not. When we see Anglomaniacs imitating the splendid intellectual life of Gladstone, the magnificent commonsense of Bright, the brilliant shrewdness of Beaconsfield, the CRIMSON, I take it, will not rebuke the tendency. For obvious reasons, however, it will be too much to expect from Anglomaniacs...