Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Patrick's Day, that something green would be appropriate. Accordingly, I borrowed a green necktie from a Freshman friend next door, and set forth. Arriving at my destination, I succeeded in forcing a way through an immense crowd of the faithful with what clothing a reasonable man would expect to have left at such a time. Once in, I saw around me all sorts and conditions of people. There were men with collars and without neckties, and vice versa; women with beards, and women with elbows seemingly enlarged for the time; women with bandaged faces, and women without, but bearing...
ALTHOUGH it is very gratifying to have our virtues commended and our faults forgotten, we cannot expect to derive any real benefit from this kind of criticism. An unbiassed comparison, whether between individuals or institutions, is the only one conducive to marked improvement...
...inserted by the Athletic Association in the second day's sports, is a novelty with us, and we must not expect to see any great amount of skill shown in this first contest. The teams will be composed of five men from each of the four classes, selected by the captains of their several class crews...
...does now, and his auditors, in most cases at least, a much greater. If, in connection with this, the instructor would give lectures now and then on matters that seem to him of special importance or of special difficulty, and if he would at the same time expect the students to be prepared to answer questions that he might put to them during the recitation on the ground they had already gone over, making it a point to ask a few questions during each hour, and letting students know that they were marked on their answers, I think that nine...
...talks ridiculously about getting drunk, or shamefully about buying fraudulent examination-papers, the hearers were to let it be understood that they considered such talk as the former silly, and the latter disgraceful, they would ultimately prevent much of the indecent talk now so familiar. We cannot expect to put an end to vicious practices themselves by keeping the fact prominently in view that they are held unworthy of gentlemen, because some persons in college do not feel that this is much of an objection. But we can at least make men prefer to keep their misdoings secret rather than...