Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...corresponding amount of subscriptions. Besides they are not to depend upon the hotel men for patronage. They will not row the race to please and benefit a set of businessmen, such as hotel keepers, but to have a chance of contending for honorable laurels against other colleges. They expect to be backed by their own fellow students and friends. The race is determined on without any fingering on the part of outsiders. The only question that outsiders can have ought to do with is when the race shall be rowed, a mere matter of convenience, economy and desirability, The crews...
...Glee Club, which is justified by its great popularity. We venture to suggest, however, that while it is characterized by great accuracy and precision, there is about it a certain stiffness and lack of sentiment. The modulation, crescendos, decrescendos are not so much attended to as one mingt expect. The voices are exclleent and the men in good training. if they could be led to sing with a little more sympathy their glees would be greatly improved. The faults to be found with the Pierian Sodality are precisely supplementary to these. In consideration of the short time they...
...college has reason to expect a most interesting concert this evening. We are informed that the Glee Club has several very good new college songs. This will be sure to make a marked improvement in the club's work, as college songs have always been its weak point. The rest of the singing is sure to be excellent, as the club has splendid material and has been rehearsing more diligently than for years past. The Pierian is larger than ever before and some of its new members from the lower classes are up to professional standards. The Sodality...
From the tone of the Yale papers it is evident that a great effort will be made to send a strong crew to New London next year in the hope of carrying off the laurels from the crimson. Although we have every reason to expect success on the Thames next year, it may be that we can gain somewhat by following in their line of action as well as by profiting by our own experience. We learn from the News that every incentive is to be offered to rowing men in the shape of a "second eight" as well...
...must all of us, faculty and students, understand, once for all, that it is just as impossible for the average man to excel in athletics without instruction, as it would be for him to excel in his studies without instruction; and that it is just as absurd to expect an uncoached crew, nine, foot-ball, lacrosse or cricket team from Harvard to beat a well coached team of another college, as it would be to expect a set of Harvard men who had received no instruction whatever in Greek prose or Calculus to surpass in an examination in these studies...