Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will deliver a course of fifteen lectures on "Business Law" to third year students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, next term. Early in this month, religious theatre services will be commenced in Boston, chiefly under the direction of Rev. Frederic Palmer of Boston Several students from the University expect to aid in this work...
...overwhelming defeat of Saturday was a great disappointment. The Faithful work of the eleven had led us to expect a victory and the beginning of a new era in Harvard athletics. During the first half and part of the second half our team played a wonderful game and victory seemed almost certain. The superior endurance of the Princeton team then began to count and during the last half hour the game was too one-sided to be interesting. The cause of the defeat was quite evident. Our men had not been trained to play a hard game for an hour...
...championship game on Saturday between Princeton and Harvard resulted in an overwhelming victory for Princeton. The most despondent supporters of Harvard did not expect such a defeat, so complete at every point, and the huge score piled up by Princeton seems almost inexplicable. At the end of the first half with the score fifteen to ten in Harvard's favor, prospects seemed bright for a victory; but after Harvard made a safety in the second half the game was decided, for from that time forward Princeton raised the score in a remarkable manner. At only one point in the game...
...today as we hope and expect, a celebration will of course follow, and this is as it should be. But we must not rush forward blindly. If there are to be bonfires and fireworks, or indeedgeneral demonstrations of any kind, let them take place on the field where the victory was won, rather than on the street or in the college yard. Jarvis is far better in its facilities and its position, and we cannot afford to sun the gauntlet of the city authorities or to put our trees and college buildings in jeopardy. A little discretion may avert...
...coaches-a small number were present, two hundred and forty men would occupy the space which might have held nine hundred and sixty men. Seven hundred and twenty men, therefore, would be disappointed in their seats-a sacrifice which the men who are going in coaches ought not to expect. In behalf, then, of these seven hundred and twenty men I protest against the graduate's request...