Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...society is to consist of good debaters, it must choose them with greater care, it must make the requisites for membership such that only the best material is admitted When this is done, the Union will have attained a better tone and until it is done it cannot expect to take a high position...
...arrangements for the Harvard-Yale debate are being completed in a most satisfactory fashion and there is every reason to expect that the debate will meet with good success. The introduction of judges will add a much greater interest to the debate, for it will then be more of an actual contest. The managers of the debate have shown good judgement in appealing to the support of graduate classes and it is pleasing to note the interest which graduates have evinced in the matter. The proposition to limit the competitors for the next debate to members of the Union...
...that this prayer is merely a means of strengthening one's spiritual muscle and that it makes no difference whether there is any answer or not; but if a man once gets this idea, prayer loses all significance for him. He will no longer pray when he can expect no reply. Again, it is claimed that the answering of prayers involves a violation of the laws of nature. But God does not interfere with these laws. He is rather constantly working in nature. People speak of special answers to prayer as if to imply that God only occasionally interferes...
Last year members and candidates are especially asked to be present today, whether they expect to begin training now or not, for Mr. Lathrop has a few words of caution and advice which every one will do well to hear...
...Students who expect to be in New York during the holidays are cordially invited to be present at the exercises. The tickets of admission have been left at Thurston's and may be had at any time by those who care to apply for them...