Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This afternoon is to be held the first meeting of the new conference committee. The college has every reason to expect that the business transacted at this session will be satisfactory to all concerned. Certainly no student delegates could better represent the varied interests of undergraduate life than those recently chosen to serve upon the committee...
...Again, the boat should be adapted exactly to the individual men who will occupy the seats in it, and we should not expect a crew to adapt themselves to the boat. If I was ordered to provide a boat for an eight-oared crew, I should first ascertain every measurement of every man in it, and then adapt the rigging of each slide, etc., exactly to the man who would occupy...
...short time this half interest dwindles to no interest at all. In addition to a talk on choosing a profession, a few words could be added, with good effect; as to what were the best special schools in the country; how they were managed; and what a man could expect to get from them. If President Eliot can spare the time for such a lecture to the senior class he may be sure that every word will be appreciated...
...Harvard student, to whom time is not money, will read with deep satisfaction the announcement that the Charles River horse cars may now be ridden upon for four cents. The outlook is now promising indeed. May we not expect that the railroad war thus inaugurated will rage with ever increasing fierceness until its results shall far exceed anything yet known in the history of Cambridge travelling? What can be more obvious than that the Cambridge road will promptly reduce its fares to three cents, and that the rival lines will continue to "see each other and go one lower" until...
...foot-ball season of 1885 may be said fairly to have opened now that the candidates for the eleven have begun to practice on Jarvis. It is useless to expect an eleven hastily formed and scantily trained, to do more than creditably represent the university in the games of this fall, even if we are so fortunate as to be allowed to retain our position in the inter-collegiate league. Victory can hardly be looked for this year. Yet we have the consciousness that the labor involved in a course of training during the coming month will have its reward...