Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Castle closes with the following remarks: "I must admit that I found the teaching of English per se in the preparatory schools much better than my reading of entrance examination papers led me to expect. The deduction seems to be that there is a deficiency in our whole American scheme of education which makes it incapable of training our boys into habits of clear and logical thinking. Without, it no number of parrot-sung rules can avail. With it the writing of good English becomes immediately possible. The two hundred papers which I have read from the pens of English...
...conference under discussion will be held in New York City at the building of the Union Theological Seminary from March 27 to 29. Those from the University who expect to be present should send their names before March 18 to James C. Manry, 3 Andover Hall; and after this date to Howard R. Weir, 600 West 122nd Street, New York City...
...Jackson '14, hurdler on the University track team, was released from the Boston City Hospital Monday, where he has undergone an operation to remove a spur of his thigh bone, which was slightly splintered by a fall. Dr. Nichols has pronounced the operation successful, and does not expect it to impede his hurdling this spring...
Remember, Freshman, your crew must have more candidates. We expect to see 50 more candidates, report for regular work at the Newell boathouse this afternoon at 5.15 o'clock...
...classes will shortly be canvassed for their unpaid pledges, and we hope to see every man redeem his pledge and help on this movement, even if he does not expect to see the consummation...