Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Something is wrong. The classes in the college have steadily increased in numbers, and the baseball captain has a right to expect a corresponding increase in the number of candidates. His expectations, natural and reasonable as they are, have not been fulfilled at all. Not only has there been no increase, but there has been an alarming decrease. Of all the classes now in college, ninety-seven has made the feeblest initial effort to produce a nine. Of course the matter rests entirely with the class. There is no compulsion in the matter. If they are willing to have their...
...three Harvard men, are already in the foreign field. The first international convention of the movement was held at Cleveland in 1891. The Christian Association and the St. Paul's Society each sent a delegate to that convention. This, the second convention, is intended not only for those who expect to be foreign missionaries, but for all those who are interested in the relation of American students to the great problems of foreign missions...
...reduce athletics to their proper level. A more propitious state of affairs could not be desired. The college world is evidently willing to be influenced by reforms which are beyond a doubt instituted wholly from unselfish feelings and for the sake of the future of college sports. We cannot expect any further results than this at present. Harvard and Yale have practically united on an issue; they have taken their first steps and will be closely watched to see how well their theories fit in with practice. It is not unreasonable to suppose that the success of this movement here...
...this time the tendency has been for the universities to set certain standards and to expect of secondary schools that they should fit students to these. That is, there has been an ideal of university education to which everything else was to be only preparatory. It is building from the top downwards...
...reproduction of the original, so perfect that no painter who ever lived could have copied it as accurately. Certain subtle, delicate qualities in a landscape, never suspected before are brought before the eye. The whole publishing world is looking to this new process, and before many years we may expect to see all our periodicals printed in colors...