Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent years the attempt has been made by all the better college dailies to alter the proportion of news matter in favor of the various forms of scholarly activity. The attempt has, we think, met with considerable success; but it is hopeless to expect that through the news columns of a daily can be made to appear the relative importance which intellectual work plays in the life of a college. The public, which draws inferences from the proportion of space devoted to different subjects, must come to false conclusions; and none will be more false than that which makes little...
...MCKITTRICK, Sec.PIERIAN. - Rehearsal this evening at. 7 o'clock. All men who expect to play in any of the concerts this spring must attend rehearsals from...
There is no reason to expect any lack of enthusiasm on the part of the two classes; in fact, there is more danger of too much than of too little. The supporters of the class nines too often let their feelings of partisanship get the better of them. They encourage or discourage the different players with extreme personalities which would be far more in place in the scrub championship, and through their eagerness, doubtless, to lose no point in the play, often crowd so closely upon the field as to interfere seriously with the game. Nothing could be farther from...
...beyond question now that the people of the South End care for pictures, but every effort will be made to secure as great an attendance as possible. Many South End people have already promised their help toward securing this result. We expect to use the same hall as before, - subject to the permission of the city council, - which has the great advantage of being located at the very centre of the crowded population of the South...
...hope for football at Harvard, it lies in an emphatic expression of opinion from a large number of graduates, both old and young. But as long as we who are in college seem indifferent - we who are the ones immediately affected by the Faculty's action - how can we expect graduates to muster enthusiasm...