Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English 2 embraces a number of Shakespeare's plays. In recitation, a student reads aloud a certain amount which is then commented on by the instructor. In a course like this, when some of the finest dramatic and poetic passages in English literature are met with, we should naturally expect some attempt at elocution, or, at least, some interest in trying to read well. But the fact is that nowhere is heard such dismal exhibitions in elocution, and even the recurrence of the finest passages seems to fail to relieve the prosiness of delivery. It would be of considerable advantage...
...truth of the matter is this: The Union Railroad Company in past times have never shown the least willingness to comply with the requests of their patrons until they were frightened into making an effort at improvement by the inception of a new railroad scheme. Why, then, should they expect the citizens of Cambridge to favor them? A rumor has been started to the effect that the new horse-railroad will cut through Jarvis Field, and otherwise injure real estate. This is not true; on the contrary, the new road will furnish a direct line to Boston, and when extended...
...seem very anxious to obtain it if they can do so without making any return for it. Taken as a whole the advertisers who patronize our papers are the most reliable firms in Boston. Many advertise simply because they wish to support our college enterprises, and not because they expect to gain much by their advertisements. We hope that our readers will bear this in mind when they wish to make purchases, and, after having looked over the advertising columns of all of our college papers carefully, decide to patronize those who patronize...
...that there was no foundation for any fears of having small-pox in college, or in Cambridge, either, for that matter. A person should be very careful about circulating such reports, as they not only cause great uneasiness in college, but are copied throughout the country. Very soon we expect to learn from some of our exchanges that "there is a great small-pox panic at Harvard...
...really see no reason why hot water cannot be brought to our rooms in the morning; the expense would be insignificant compared with the increased satisfaction of students. The authorities are singularly remiss in not providing Herdics to take us to our meals; it is barbarous to expect a man to walk this cold weather, - barbarous, yes, cannabalistic. But, gentlemen, I want to ask this: Instead of sending, imperiously, for us to come to the office, why do they not come to us? Eh? - I ask you why don't they? I pause for a reply. You are silent...