Word: expected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same occasion Mr. Higginson gave a side hit at the style of prizes given in the athletic meetings. "You encourage total abstinence," he said, "for your athletes when they are training, but you present them with mugs when they have won, as if you did not expect that abstinence to continue afterwards...
...communication of the treasurer of the University crew, in another column, shows that he has not been seconded by the college at large as well as he had a right to expect, in his endeavors to raise the subscriptions necessary for the support of the crew. It is certainly but courtesy to return the stamped envelopes, but to pay no attention to them shows a want of consideration of the time and trouble the treasurer of the crew is obliged to give to these matters...
...prospects for a close and exciting contest for the champion ship are excellent. The nines appear to be more evenly matched than ever before From the reports that have reached us up to the present time, it would seem that chances favor Princeton and Brown. Amherst does not expect to win the championship but hopes to make a good showing. Yale's chances would seem to be poorer than last year, though it is of course too early to tell with any degree of certainty. The feeling at all the colleges seems to be that expressed by our Brown correspondent...
...regular men, and the former have been rowing in a cranky shell. The juniors have been quietly confident of the race until Saturday, when the freshmen opened their eyes somewhat. Whether or not the latter can keep their spurt up for two miles, remains to be seen. Disinterested parties expect a close and interesting race, and have yet no unanimous opinion as to the winner, although the general verdict is that '83 will not be far from the front, while '86 will by no means bring up the rear...
...pleasure to the safety of the majority. All employers believe in shutting off their workmen from drinking. They know it is a bad thing for them. The same principle runs through the army and navy; it prevails in all railroads and other great corporations. The students of Harvard expect to be the lenders in such organizations. They will expect those under them to be temperate. Is it fair, is it manly, for them to indulge themselves while depriving others of the privilege? He first became a total abstainer through a poor hard-drinking Irishman whom he tried to reform...