Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...manifestly unnecessary to force them to study four different kinds, besides mechanics and chemistry. The effect of this system is twofold: to make the Freshman year very disagreeable and expensive to those students who have not mathematical minds, and to fill the pockets of private tutors, who expect a large compensation for the disagreeableness of the occupation which they pursue. The excessive amount of mathematics required in the Freshman year is profitable alone to the tutors, who reap a rich harvest before every examination. The proof of what we say may be found in the number of students...
Again, many students regard the use of illegal help in examination as free from deception or disrepute, on the ground that the Faculty show that they expect them to use illegal help by the supervision of proctors; and many who use such aid at present would not think of doing so if proctors were dispensed with...
...find in the directions concerning the making out of lists of electives the following example as a model: Philosophy, 2, Cartesianism. If the students are as accurate in making out their lists as this specimen, which is given them as a model, the Dean may expect to find some such choice upon the lists as German, I, Moliere; or English, I, Dante...
...Christian" is preferable to the languid swell. The present state of things - in Harvard, at least - comes entirely from the general indifference of society to success in study. Until it is more of a disgrace to be dropped than it is honor to be on a crew, we must expect to see a good thing carried to excess; but the reform must come, not from the college government, but from that public which is, so to speak, the patron of the college...
...places which are occupied by Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, and Holmes. America either has no young poets coming forward at the present time, or else they are keeping themselves in the dark, to burst upon us like the harlequin in the play, and startle us when we least expect them. A prize offered here for the best poem by an undergraduate, or a graduate of one or two years' standing, might not cause a refulgent light to burst upon us immediately; but, possibly, it might serve to tone down the uncivilized "Hoosiers" who are expected to throng our halls when entrance...