Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...answer rests greatly upon the view that is taken of the true purpose of examinations. If an examination is regarded as a pitched battle between the instructor and the student, in which the former attempts to floor his adversary and the latter tries to escape being floored, we must expect the instructor to make use of Napoleonic tactics, and concentrate his forces on a single point, - this being, doubtless, the best method of attack, - and we should mass our strength on the point we expect to be attacked, thus leaving our whole domain open to the incursions of random, guerilla...
...were not in the least surprised at the appearance of the article on "Debating," in the last Advocate. The indifferent attitude maintained at Harvard towards the claims of oratory has been so often attacked, that one ought to expect and welcome the presentation of the other side of the argument. But if this is all that can be said, - and it must be acknowledged that our author is pretty successful in covering the ground on his side, - we fear that his case is far from a strong...
...does, a large share of the public attention, and in nearly every part of the country the subject of legislative enactments, although hitherto it has been alluded to but casually in the College press, deserves the thought of those undergraduates interested in social and moral problems, who expect hereafter to engage in affairs and deal with the tangled knots of reform. Delicate to handle it undoubtedly is, like everything that has to do with the practice or views of a man's associates. Moreover, the most earnest efforts are often misconstrued by rigid supporters of the pledge and prohibition...
...case is not due solely to the fact that the peasant does not like school, not knowing the value of education, nor yet is it because of the cost of procuring an education, that our schools do not realize the good that we have a right to expect of them; there are yet other reasons which affect the very foundation of things...
...Class of '76 were at least enthusiastic, subscribing liberally to meet the expenses of their crew and having all winter long in the Gymnasium from ten to twelve men working for it; but our new associates seem entirely forgetful of the fact that the rest of the College expect them to send a crew to the next regatta. Yet perhaps I am wrong in this; perhaps the Freshmen are mindful of the fact, but think that all that is essential to success at the next race is to elect a captain, a man almost wholly ignorant of rowing...