Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...proposed rifle-match with Yale will not take place, as the H. U. R. C. could not send a team to New Haven by the night train, and expect the men to be in good enough condition to shoot a rifle-match on their arrival, on which condition only the Yale club accepted our challenge; and they have finally refused to shoot at Springfield or any other intermediate place...
...harmonized Class-Day difficulties, no greater surprise or consternation would have been felt in our College world than was experienced last Saturday evening on the announcement of the result of the first game with Yale. The record of our Nine has been so good this year that much was expected of it, perhaps too much. So, at least, think the Nine, who feel that they get little praise when they win, so much is it taken as a matter of course; but when they unfortunately lose, they are followed, not with sympathy, but with fault-finding and audible imprecation...
...questions of the day by men who devote their lives to the subjects they would be called upon to explain would satisfy an imperative need of our education, and enable Harvard to send forth that constant supply of educated practical men which the country has a right to expect of her, - a right thus far too little regarded...
...body. Dr. James's course, dealing as it does with Herbert Spencer's principles of psychology and with the latest investigations on the functions of the brain, supplies a want that is felt by every student of philosophy; and now that it has been rightly classified, we may confidently expect that this course will occupy a place equal in favor with that of any philosophical elective...
When a college Faculty treat students in the manner we have mentioned, they cannot expect to subdue the boyish and rowdy element which is so prominent in almost all the smaller colleges. The cane and beaver rushes, the Cornell "stackings," the thousand and one absurdities which make up the amusements of such students, will remain in favor so long as the Faculties encourage them by treating their perpetrators as if they were committing a fault and not an imbecility. When a Cornell student "stacks" a room, or a Union student indulges in a cane rush, to wear a foolscap would...