Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...least one hundred! The success of the '87 dinner of last year will not allow that there should be any less interest in the dinner shown this year. Besides, '87 must now set a good example to the classes below it. What class spirit shall we expect to see them exhibit, if we do not exhibit that spirit ourselves? '87 has not been remiss in proving this class enthusiasm in the many victories and occasions in which it has had opportunity to show it. Let it not now be found wanting in this spirit, but let it come forward...
This afternoon the University Athletic Meeting occurs on Holmes Field. The large number of entries, and the splendid records of many of the contestants, promise a very interesting series of events, and we may confidently expect that the work done this afternoon will do great credit to the college. Under the supervision of our efficient trainer, the track athletics of Harvard are in a more flourishing condition than ever before in the history of the college. Both old and new men this year seem filled with an enthusiasm which it is very gratifying to see, while the results attained...
...course, from the nature of the case, the club can never expect a very large membership. It has at present twenty-seven names upon its list, of which seventeen are students. This is a good number for a society with such aims and requirements. As an assistance to the regular work of the Classical Department, it is of the greatest value, - a fact which instructors as well as students have not been slow to recognize...
...first championship game is played this afternoon at Providence. Of course we hope it will be a victory for Harvard, but, because everything in base-ball is so uncertain, we can venture no prophecies. And yet the college has good reason to expect a successful outcome of to day's game. The nine has shown up well the past few days, and has already defeated Brown severely. Careful play throughout, confidence, but not over-confidence, ought to win for the crimson the first game of the championship series...
...follows: - all those desirous of competing will please hand their names to the directors as soon as possible, together with the events they intend to enter, that an open eye may be kept on them and some system of training prepared. It is folly for us to expect to do much, but let us drag out of this slough of despond instantly. For the benefit of those who may be inclined to compete, we add a table of times that must be made before any person can hope to find his name on the list of fortunate aspirants: one-mile...