Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...painfully evident, says the Spectator of the recent gathering of students to discuss athletics, that the conference from which we had been led to expect so much, was in every sense a failure. Nothing was effected to which the slightest importance might be attached, and debate was conspicuous by its entire absence. These assertions may possibly seem severe, but are nevertheless eminently just. It was a natural supposition that some measures would be adopted on this important occasion, both salutary and wise ; on a review of the work, however, we find there is not a single enactment worthy of attracting...
...time, and the good effects of hard work are beginning to show themselves. Of course, freshmen can learn little of rowing on the machines, but what they have accomplished gives promise that they will very quickly turn into good oarsmen when once they row on the river-this they expect to do in about two weeks...
...News. The initial letters on the next two pages, particularly the B, and the fantastic drawing illustrating the emotions of the anxious paterfamilias on the receipt of letters from his son and from the faculty, are quite good. The merit of this last picture would lead us, however, to expect better work from its artist, Mr. Case, than the picture he offers us later on "Politeness as a Fine Art." The other pictures are fair, although we suggest to the artist who designed the illustration of the new Yale shell that he should have placed the cannon...
...meeting for the formation of a canoe club will be held Wednesday, at 7.30 P. M., in Holyoke, 35. It is hoped that all who own or expect to own canoes will attend, and not merely those who have canoes in Cambridge...
...meeting for the formation of a canoe club will be held Wednesday, at 7.30 P. M., in Holyoke, 35. It is hoped that all who own or expect to own canoes will attend, and not merely those who have canoes in Cambridge...