Word: expected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Members of the Yale foot ball team who expect to play their game against Princeton next Thursday are watching and waiting with deep interest for the result of Mr. J. L. Sullivan's test case on the law relating to pugilism." -[Boston Advertiser...
...briefly describe my own case. I room in a private house where there are seven or eight other students. The seven or eight are, I believe, all musical. Under the circumstances, I of course expect the days and the evenings to be filled with music. I have learned to study equally well to the sound of the flute, violin, guitar and human voice. But however well I may get on during the day and evening, I find that I cannot sleep while my friends are making their music. As I write, the hour is past...
...plant." The students have for years PROTESTED against certain abuses in the janitor system. But our Parliament, with its advanced liberals and its ultra-conservatisms busy fighting one another, and all the rest absent; and our Overseers, "ninety-five in the shade," calm and tranquil,-how can we expect such as these to regard the wishes of the students, unless those wishes are expressed either in the "Explosive orotund" of gunpowder, or in the swelling choral tones that come from "One equal temper of heroic hearts" bound to be heard or smash something? Now. there is no doubt, but that...
...large number that turned out to run Thursday, it is obvious that there remains still quite a spark of enthusiasm in a considerable number of students for these crosscountry runs. Thier importance in the line of bringing out men for long distances cannot be over-estimated. If we expect to win the mile race at the next inter-collegiate meeting, we must do something more than run two or three weeks on the track in the spring. This something else, I think, should consist in cross-country runs. Dr. Sargent assured me this fall that there was no sport better...
...should we expect our representative teams to make anything like a brilliant record, when we ourselves do not take interest enough in their work even to support them by our presence on the field? It is true that the game of yesterday afternoon was comparatively unimportant, but, with the Princeton game so close at hand, the pitiful array of only two hundred men who had enthusiasm enough to walk over to Jarvis, reflects anything but credit upon our students...