Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...success of which it is all but impossible to surmise. But there is no doubt about the fact that, as a reading play, it holds the attention with a firm grip, that it is full of action, humor, and skillfully maintained suspense, and that, as we have come to expect in Mr. MacKaye's work, the lines contain, especially towards the close, much poetical thought and fine imaginative expression. Finally, the drama is marked by a quite extraordinary intensity,-an intensity which not only permeates and broadens the symbolism, but which gives to the flashes of wit an illuminating power...
Students who expect to occupy rooms in College buildings next year and who wish to have work done in them by College workmen should call at the office of the Inspector of Grounds and Buildings preferably before June 1, and not later than August 15, to make the necessary arrangements...
...Harvard can expect in the 120-yard hurdles is that J. P. Long will take second, for Kilpatrick, of Yale, should win in good time. Long should turn the tables on Kilpatrick in the low hurdles and win by a slight margin. In the field events Kilpatrick is the most likely man in the shot-put and broad jump. McKay, of Harvard, should take third in the shot-put and J. P. Long should place in the broad jump. The pole-vault and hammer-throw will go to Yale easily, Harvard probably not getting a place in either...
...expect to attend the Junior dinner in the Living Room of the Union on next Tuesday may secure tables for separate groups of ten or twenty by leaving the names of the men a Leavitt & Peirce's or the Union...
...Frothingham spoke largely on political principles, outlining what the people really expect of a man in political life. The only thing that induced him to enter politics, he remarked, was that the machine said he could not win; in the same way many apparently one-sided issues, when left to the people, are decided in a wholly unexpected manner. Sincere and helpful criticism of men and institutions with which the young politician comes in contact, an inflexible maintenance of his word, come what may, and an attitude towards the people while not too cordial and familiar, yet open-minded...