Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...myself, if the various busts and statues so profusely scattered through our recitation halls were decorated with placards telling what each represented. My own case, I feel sure, is daily repeated; where some twenty busts line the walls it is quite a tax upon a fellow's knowledge to expect him to name them off to his own personal satisfaction and with sufficient glibness to insure some appearance of accuracy. The suggestion is not important, but deserves notice. May we ask, what the busts were put there for, and if they are answering the intended purpose...
This afternoon, if the present weather hold off, we shall have a proof of the muscle of '86. "From so large a class," as every one has said before, we may confidently expect the average number of candidates for the crews and nines, as well as new-comers to fill up the vacancies and to better the records of past years. Rumors are so unsatisfactory, that we feel much relieved that at length an opportunity is offered the freshmen to show us who and what they are, and in the future we shall be able to build our expectations upon...
...life, and it is no uncommon thing to see long, lean and lanky looking individuals parading our so-called campus, seeking for recruits. The freshmen, always anxious to identify themselves with something, it matters not what, fall an easy prey to these prowlers, and before long we may expect to hear of the budding Columbia College Lacrosse Team, warranted harmless and safe to lose as many goals as there are to be lost. Mass meetings will then be called, and the Lacrosse Association will be squelched, only, Phoenix-like, to rise again...
...Ipswich, where all will take dinner, and while the others go on they can turn back, reaching home by 6 o'clock Saturday evening. A ride of this sort is especially enjoyable, and will, besides, furnish excellent practice for the hare and hound chase the club expect to hold on the following Thursday...
Students who have taken or expect to take courses in fine arts under Mr. Chas. H. Moore, would do well to call in at King's bookstore to see the portfolio containing...