Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Major Higginson will talk on some of his personal recollections and reminiscences. He says, "I expect to recount to them (the boys) about how I have lived and what I have done, and to tell them why I have done it. I feel strongly the need of young men, and more especially Harvard students, doing something for their fellow-creatures, something to make the country better and stronger, so that it seemed possible to add a few words on that subject...
...Arena preceding last Wednesday's game put the men in trim for hard playing, which resulted in a 3 to 1 victory over Dartmouth. Though this score was not as large as was anticipated, the defects brought out were far from serious or fundamental, and there is reason to expect that they will not reappear in tonight's contest. In the last practice before leaving for New York, held in the Arena Thursday evening, the University team displayed speed and excellent team-work, defeating the B. A. in a short scrimmage by the score...
...mountain stream. All this, however, gives the Victorian little help in his present task. All of his loves--very respectable indeed, but old-fashioned--Scott, Dickens Thankeray, the great Jane, Fielding, Chaucer, Goldsmith, Byron, Wordsworth, Shakespere, and the people of the Bible, have trained and perhaps limited him to expect definiteness, consequence, and satisfaction. In his time and in his reading of English literature morality had never been successfully divorced from art; in fact, a degree of separate maintenance had never kept them long asunder...
Only men who entered college with the class of 1914 or who expect to graduate with it may make application...
...boat room, which will cover the entire area of the building. Upstairs there will be locker rooms, showers, and a large lounging room, the latter opening upon a broad covered piazza from which an unobstructed view of the river may be obtained. The boating enthusiasis of the association expect the boathouse to be ready for occupancy at the beginning of August...