Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...period of the year is at hand when every college is holding its winter meetings; those of Harvard are near at hand, and naturally we expect them to be as successful this year as they have proved in the past. There is one suggestion, however, which we beg to offer the management. If the experience of former years is any criterion on which to base our opinions, there will be the usual crush at the entrance. The management ought not to forget this, but should open the doors earlier than is customary and let him be served best who comes...
Harvard is surely the last place where one would expect to find a premium set on laziness and indolence. We all know how the very atmosphere of Cambridge seems to stir the soul and to urge the mind to work and learn. Yet, here in these self-same "classic shades" some ninety years ago, when the eighteenth century was striding on toward its close, there arose a systematic apotheosis of laziness. It was probably in 1796 that the idea of forming the Navy Club was conceived by some wag of the college. The principle of its existence was that...
...what is true of the professor of moral philosopy is doubtless true also of the professors of languages, mathematics, polite literature, chemistry and other subordinate subjects - subordinate to boating. They are far too sensible, far too proficient in the science of relative values, to expect a dinner given by the students in their honor to compare with this boating dinner. Expressed in a scholarly form, their conviction in the premises would be that boating is to all other studies as 14 is to 7. As for the Yale tutors, the chances are that those level-headed devotees of knowledge...
...seats, while the steward's satellites are revelling in a symposium beneath our very feet? We have in vain tried to get the directors to change our own fare for the better; some inseparable obstacle has always stood in the way; so, it is perhaps too much to expect them to intercede for the waiters, who have certainly been ill-treated: but the ten o'clock symposiums must be stopped even if we have to have an open war with Mr. S-II-v-n to accomplish our end. Deleuda est Carthago...
...does anybody claim that the new system makes the case any better? Nobody is likely to do that. Or will some of our colleges say in substance to the father, Twenty-five years ago we made you a Bachelor of Arts for work that was somewhat indefinite, but we expect to make the case clearer to the public by giving the same degree to your son for work of an entirely different character? If the old degree is so indefinite and meaningless, it is strange that any of the reformed want it all. We should suppose that they would wish...