Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here is a forecast that is based on the best available information from the rival camps, aside from a couple of surprise packages that Harvard does not expect to open until Saturday night...
...claimed by Little is the woefully impractical and weak idea of the University having two football teams. Some real enthusiasm might have been engendered had the Big Ten Universities all put Freshmen football teams into contest with each other (since Freshmen cannot play upon the regular teams), but to expect a Michigan "B" team to create much interest when playing some other university's "B" team is, as was proven last Fall, impossible...
Elder Statesmen are thrice welcome at the White House. For them and their years of wise achievement, President Coolidge has a sincere reverence. Some day, perhaps not far .from now, Calvin Coolidge may reasonably expect to be himself regarded as an Elder Statesman.* It was with unusual pleasure and a fervent handshake, therefore, that he last week welcomed into his office Elder Statesman Elihu Root of New York...
...help undergraduates prepare for the transition would be welcomed, and in particular such a one as in the present instance, where the individual's interests coincide so directly with those of the prospective employer. To be sure, only a very small fraction of even the leading contestants can expect to benefit in so direct a way, but the experiment is in the right direction and offers one means of solution to a difficult problem...
...change is to be made, the interest of the people as a whole is paramount," continued Professor Beale. "Reasons against the proposed change are: the weakening of the defenses against murder, if the punishment is not thought adequate; prisoners would expect to be and frequently are freed before their term ends; capital punishment alone cannot be avoided, as imprisonment can be by release after the public has forgotten the crime...