Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next attempt is to be in August-an afternoon and evening at Lake Minnetonca-a favorite summer resort for these two cities. We expect much from the new extension also...
...were sorry to see the evidently bad manner in which the meeting was managed. The events were not started in the published order and a spirit of slackness and irresponsibility prevailed. It is needless to say that the meeting this afternoon must not be managed in this way. We expect those in charge of the games to do everything in their power to make them go off well and promptly...
...reply to the questions, What advantages induced you to come to Harvard? Have your expectations been fulfilled? What advantages have you found that you did not expect? The answers are especially interesting; they show conclusively that men find here the advantages they have anticipated, and many others in addition. A full list of the advantages mentioned cannot be given, but a few of those most emphatically dwelt upon by the men who wrote the committee will be of interest; they are: general reputation, superiority of instructors, wide range of courses of instructions, methods of instruction including the elective system; various...
Some of the disadvantages which men coming here had been led to expect were: immoral and irreligious influences, lax and superficial spirit of work, extravagance, expense of living, snobbery, and others. Most of those who mentioned these thing found their anticipations to be groundless...
...Woodcock the college professional, since Christmas. They began work in a shead, the wicket being covered with matting Their captain, H. P. Bailey, is one of the bowlers on the first eleven of the Merion Cricket club. They ought to turn out a good team, and Harvard may expect to work hard if she wishes to lead the Quaker eleven. Of the men that will make up Pennsylvania's team, four-J. A. Scott, W. Scott, J. H. Patterson, and H. J. Brown-have been chosen for the Gentlemen of Philadelphia who are going to England this summer