Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of candidates for the Yale University crew has been reduced to fourteen, who are now taking daily exercise in the tank, and expect to go out on the harbor in about two weeks. The following is the list of men who are now training: Woodruff, '89, captain, 177 pounds; Hartwell, '89, S., 170 pounds; Brewster, '91, 175 pounds; James, '90, 161 pounds-all of last year's crew; Mosle, '89, 165 pounds; Harrison, '90, 156 pounds; Heyworth, '90, S., 167 pounds; Rogers, '90, S., 160 pounds; Ferris, '91, 177 pounds; Isham, '91, 1551/2 pounds; Simons, '91, 157 pounds; Burroughs...
...Century Company expect to begin the publication of their Century Dictionary during the coming spring, and hope to send out a section of it every two months thereafter, and thus to complete it within two years, the entire work making six volumes with about 6,500 pages. For seven years the labor on this important work has gone forward under the direction of Professor William D. Whitney, of Yale, who has been the editor in chief of the enterprise, and for the past two years the printers have been engaged in typesetting in order that the actual time of publication...
...tank stood about twenty-eight inches high, and seemed to flow with perfect freedom around the central partitions. As a whole the tank promises to be entirely successful and it is earnestly hoped that the crews will derive all the advantages from it which all the men in college expect them...
...seniors expect to have an entertainment about the first of March to liquidate their class debt. The committee in charge is G. D. Mumford, W. J. Barlow, H. Odell, W. V. King, T. W. Thacher, and H. L. Cutting...
...members of their class in getting photographed. As a result, the CRIMSON, towards the spring of the year, is flooded with notices from the committee, begging the members of the class to be more prompt in this matter. Such a condition of affairs should cease. All expect to be photographed ultimately, but from a natural sluggishness of disposition, many postpone this, as other things, until the last moment. The force of public opinion ought to be sufficient this year to prevent all delay, thereby lightening the task of the committee. Thanks are due those who have already, by their example...