Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Only eight men are now trying for the freshman crew. The captain of the crew, and several good men are now playing foot ball, so we may expect a much larger number of promising candidates when the foot ball season is over...
...like the proper degree of promptness. Lack of practice should certainly not be a ground of excuse for any weakness in the playing, and as the afternoons are growing very short, it is to be hoped that men will do their duty and turn out on time if they expect to retain their places...
...team was beaten by Yale that fall, and has been beaten by Yale every year since. Two years ago the Magill University team played a match on Holmes Field, again meeting with disaster at our hands. We wish every success to our eleven on its present trip, and expect it, with the memory of past exploits before it, to win fresh inter-national honors for the University...
After a fortnight of steady work on the part of the gentlemen composing the various committees appointed to make arrangements for the grand parade of tonight, everything is now brought into working order, and we expect our division of the parade to be again, as in years past, the most unique and interesting feature of the whole affair. It is certain that the preparations for the event which have been made this year by the college are on a far more elaborate scale than ever before. Whether this is advisable or not is an open question; but that the Harvard...
...closing reiterate the impossibility of having good courts of turf; they must be of earth if we expect to accomplish anything...