Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...French Government unbounded thanks for its assistance to our R. O. T. C. last year; we are doubly grateful for its kindness in sending us Lieutenant Morize. In so doing the French are showing that they expect much of us; our only way to thank them is by cooperating heart and soul...
...smaller and its responsibilities are greater than any other Freshman class, each member has a correspondingly larger personal responsibility. What it misses in numbers, it surely must have in collective capacity. There is always more potentiality in Freshmen than in the other groups of undergraduates. We not only expect but we are sure that 1921 will not disappoint the hope of all Harvard men--a hope that it may shed more honor on its guide than all preceding classes...
President Lowell has said that he expected every man in College to have at least one military course on his study card. He does not expect anyone to give up all other branches of study. Our Faculty, as one may guess, is not an enemy combined against humanitarianism. But times change, and such changes make new study imperative. The world war has wrought a tremendous change, and we must understand the forces that are to decide that...
...statement given out last night President Lowell said, "I fully expect every member of the University to join one of the military courses." In order to receive the greatest amount of support from the War Department and to maintain at the University the record of those who have already left to enter the service, this will be necessary. The University will make allowance for those men who would be barred from the courses by the rules of concentration and distribution by waiving those rules in special cases; faculty assistance has been offered generously; and commutation of uniforms has been promised...
This year two forms of military training are open to members of the University--one for army and the other for naval service. It is safe to expect that all students senrolled in College this year will take advantage of these courses to make themselves ready to defend their nation, if such a thing be necessary. The nation no longer needs proof of the value of such courses. It only wants proof of the character of the individuals to whom these opportunities are offered...