Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...limited number of men only. It is possible to engage in sport for but a limited part of the day. This makes it necessary to have the grounds much larger than if they could be used in rotation by the students. Should Harvard expect to find sufficient room to exercise her hundreds of undergraduates in on fields no larger than are owned by many colleges less than half her size? More grounds must be bought if Harvard is to maintain her general interest in athletics. Moreover, this land should be determined on and bought at once, as the price...
...nine expect to have the use of Holmes field by the middle of April. It is hoped that it may be got into condition at that time by being sodded and rolled...
...over. To see is often to understand, and if this plan can be carried out with no more or even less trouble than the present one we shall hope to see it adopted. If it should turn out more costly or troublesome than we think, we should not expect the society, which has done so much for us, to undertake anything greater...
...Princeton nine expect to visit Philadelphia and Baltimore during the spring vacation, and intend to play two games at each place. [Princetonian...
...true many men do not engage in athletic sports. This however is not to be mended by reducing such sports to a more simple state of development. The calculus is not to be studied until after a considerable training in more elementary branches of mathematics. A man cannot expect to play upon a university team until he has acquired a like preliminary skill in less exacting exercises. The remedy lies in a more general extension of sports in college by organizing many more preparatory teams in a better state of physical education in all schools which fit boys for college...