Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of these misfortunes, the University team is still strong, for it is backed by a large corps of second-string men. This will be the first real try-out of the season, and we believe the team will do better than the conditions would lead one to expect. If it wins this afternoon, and we are rather confident that it will, the victory will be due to the conscientious work of the men throughout the long season of training...
...received a stimulating impulse. Last year the Dramatic Club came into being, and it has already made a distinct place for itself in the University. Considerable experimenting has been done by students in the writing of one-act plays, and with the additional incentive of these prizes we may expect further development of dramatic writing at Harvard...
...honors. It is that spirit which must be cultivated here if we would foster a desire for scholarship in college. So long as the distinctions achieved in college are not worthy of perpetuation, or are not deemed to be so by the university itself, it is idle to expect the students or the public to value them highly, or to hope that undergraduates will have any great ambition to excel in their college work...
...spring practice. It is highly important that all possible candidates turn up, for it is in the early practice that the captain and coaches form their opinion of the ability of the various men. Besides, the new rules must be tried out and put to actual test if we expect to accomplish anything under them. Withington said also, that he expected to hold meetings twice a week to discuss the rules and proposed plays and that these would be compulsory...
...expect to report for spring football practice and who are not exercising in some way at present, are urged to report for association football practice to develop their wind and to get in better condition. Spring practice will be very serious and of much more importance this year than in past years, on account of the changes in the rules...