Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...world, happy in his art and not yet stirred to his very soul by the sorrows of life." An exceedingly odd effect is produced in the first movement by leading the mind gradually on and on till it demands a climax and dropping it just where the climax is expect d. This looks like a mood for occasional playfulness in the composer, a mood not at all inconsistent with the greatness of his genius. This playfulness shows itself again in the last movement. Here again the work of the orchestra was masterly...
...Springfield is a thing of the past, the interest in football is all centered in the outcome of the freshman game next Saturday. As the men coming from the 'varsity squad will change, to a large extent, the make up of the eleven it will be impossible to expect much team-work by the end of the week...
...this improvement and that it gives a very different aspect to our prospects. We cannot foretell victory or defeat; but we can say that a better eleven, in its individual and in its team work, has seldom before represented Harvard at a Yale game; and we can with reason expect a satisfactory result tomorrow...
...forces of labor and capital have been marshalled against each other. Both expect and all are ready for war. Arbitration would only mean patching up a treaty, without destroying the hostility between the two armies. Some more radical remedy then is necessary. The great problem is, what shall this remedy...
King, Wheeler, and Vincent, though all injured now, expect to play on Princeton in the game against Yale...