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Word: expectation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton students confidently expect that their nine will win one of the Princeton Harvard series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/27/1885 | See Source »

...effort of professional actors, there are many personal faults that can be mentioned, and some of them, from this standpoint are glaring. But, one commits a serious mistake by judging the personal acting with this spirit. The play was an earnest endeavor of amateurs, and one cannot expect the personal excellencies of professionals, Mr. Jones as Brutus lacked many of the essential attributes of that character, but as Antony, he showed a good conception of his part, and a ready and well marked adaptation of action and speech to his ideal. His clearness of tone and ease of forcible utterance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JULIUS CAESAR. | 5/27/1885 | See Source »

...Society consists at present of 54 members, of whom 16 have been elected during the year. Of these 54 members, 13 are members of the graduating class, and four others are students who do not expect to remain at the university after this year. The society will therefore shortly loose about one third of its members. Half of these, it is true, take no interest in the society, and never attend its meetings; they are relics of the days when members were elected wholesale, and without regard to their scientific qualifications. But the fact remains that the society is soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Natural History Society. | 5/23/1885 | See Source »

...said. The freshman championship has been held so long at New Haven that we have come to regard it as almost the personal property of Yale. The team that is to represent eighty-eight to-day has done faithful work, it is true, yet, perhaps we can hardly expect it to obtain, on the grounds of its rivals, the victory which it failed to gain at home. Altogether, however, the day bids fair to be a brilliant one for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/23/1885 | See Source »

...thing occur on Harvard grounds is not only an insult to our third baseman, but an insult to Harvard; and as such should bring forth an apology from every member of the Yale freshman nine. If such a thing happens on our own grounds, "what are the freshmen to expect at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/18/1885 | See Source »

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