Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...themselves forward for athletic honors. The winter meeting of the Athletic Association will determine, in a great measure, how much we may depend upon '85 to help Harvard keep up her reputation for general athletics that she has won at Mott Haven during the past two years. Again we expect '85 to give more hearty pecuniary support to her nine and crew, and to make the best showing possible in the coming athletic contests...
...mentioned again, nevertheless we think it our duty to call the attention of the authorities to the wretched condition of the walks between the chapel and Memorial, and between the library and chapel. Even now the mud is several inches deep in some places, and what must we expect when the regular spring thaws come? It seems to us that a great lack of forethought was shown by the authorities when they expended so much in placing stone and brick walks all over the yard, and left these two most important thoroughfares without even the protection of that cheap...
...small lecture room, with no supply of fresh air other than that from the furnace in cold weather, and perhaps a small opening in the window during warm weather. The confined air is still further vitiated by the gases and other products of chemical experiments. No one could reasonably expect to have perfectly pure air in a chemical laboratory, but leaving out of consideration the pollution of the atmosphere by the chemicals used, the means of ventilation in Boylston Hall are altogether inadequate...
...indulgence for the inevitable short-comings of a first number, and we assure our readers that we expect to secure their good-will and patronage only by honest efforts to meet their reasonable demands...
Congress, with the narrow bigotry which one might expect from such a body, has not yet passed an international copyright law. Perhaps it thinks that authors have no rights which other people are bound to protect. Perhaps Mr. Swansdown is the main difficulty. I don't know, because I never was sent to Congress and never expect...