Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee, consisting of President Eliot and Professors Gurney, Pierce, Shaler, J. W. White and Mr. Preble, meet this afternoon in conference with a committee of invited students consisting of six from each class to discuss the question of athletic sports in colleges. What practical results, if any, we may expect from this, conference it would not now be profitable to conjecture. There is in fact only one result that we can definitely hope for from such a meeting and that result certainly we have a right to expect. It is that the faculty will through the committee give some definite...
...therefore, we would respectfully urge, high time that some authoritative definition of the policy of the faculty be put before the students so that hereafter they may know what regulatious or changes to expect from the faculty, and may not again, as has once been the case, have this sense of justice and fair play outraged by the sudden adoption of any restriction by the faculty without fair notice. We would also certainly hope that as a result of this conference more cordial and less distrustful relations may be brought about between the faculty and the students. But this...
...quite recent construction. Of the grounds of all the various colleges devoted to men, ours receives much more attention and care than any other and in summer presents a finer and neater appearance. At the present rate of improvement, if the college only gets money enough, we may expect to see, in winter, board walks in all directions, and in summer, beds of bright flowers adorning the neat grass plots...
...always done in England, and even allowing for the difference in 'calibre' of the players, the superiority of the English style was fully exemplified in the late international matches. The more advanced the game gets here, the necessity for this change will be more apparent, and I confidently expect that next season our best teams will study this style of play to their advantage...
...make money; if it "won't pay," it goes under. A medical school is an educational affair, whether it pays in money or not is a matter of no importance whatever. It is a public servant, just the same as the public schools. The only dividend the public can expect to receive is that the graduates of the schools are thoroughly educated in both the scientific and practical parts of their profession...