Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unreasonable, if not impossible. By far the best thing in the number is "Jim," by C. A. Pierce. It is a story of a small boy who ran away from home and returned, like the prodigal son, to a much better reception than he had any reason to expect. The story is charmingly written. The poetry of the number is not above the average...
...they believe that the work can be done infinitely better by a few representatives than by the class as a whole. The class delegate their power to the committee, and the committee, so long as its plans plainly meet the approval of a majority of the class, can rightfully expect that every member of the class shall respect their vote precisely as much as if it were a formal vote of the class...
...Saturday. The nine is in a critical condition. If the players can regain and keep their form, they stand an excellent chance of winning the second game from Yale; if they indulge in complacency over the work they have already done, they will surely lose and they cannot expect, if defeat comes for this reason, that the University will be anyting else than disgusted. No one would feel worse than the members of the nine themselves if they should lose at Yale, and no one knows better than they that to down Yale on her own grounds will...
WELD BOAT CLUB,- All men, whether they have signed or not, who expect to enter the wherry, canoe, or double-scull races Saturday afternoon, must be at the boat house or send representatives to draw for boats at 3.30 today. The men can reserve the boats they draw and have them rigged to suit them...
...hoped that a large sum of money would be netted last Saturday, but the stormy weather made the attendance considerably less than was expected: As the game this afternoon is the last one to be played in Cambridge, it is the only remaining opportunity for the class to give their team financial support. Certainly the victory which the team has won entitles them to expect support of every kind...