Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inaccurate, has only served to add one more to the many burdens and embarrassments against which the crew has been obliged to struggle this year, its tendency naturally being to check subscriptions, and to lessen the cordial co-operation and moral support which the crew have a right to expect from the college...
...constitution adopted by our own society. As our own society was the pioneer institution of its kind among the colleges, it is but natural that other colleges, in following our example, should establish their societies on a similar basis. In the lapse of several years, however, one might expect that flaws could be found or improvements suggested in the constitution of the Harvard Co-operative Society. That this does not appear to be the case, at least to any appreciable extent, must be gratifying to those gentleman who labored so earnestly and carefully for the success of Harvard's experiment...
...their own weak points? Can they select for themselves out of this enormous bill of fare (425 hours per week offered by Harvard) the 12 hours most conducive to their mental growth? I have not met such young men among the undergraduates of any college, nor do I expect to meet them. If experienced men who devote a lifetime to the study of the special question of election in studies in colleges, differ as widely as do President Eliot and President McCosh, how can a poor, green youth of eighteen, without any knowledge whatsover of the nature and advantage...
...Yale crews expect to get on the water in a few days, provided the weather remains mild...
There has been a stationery bicycle built in the gymnasium. Judging from the number of men who patronized it as soon as it was in order, we may expect some fine time in the bicycle races this spring...