Word: expected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feelings of the great Sunflower have been hurt by the newspaper talk. He complains: "I heard much about the character of American journalism in England. If you expect English gentlemen to come to your country, especially gentlemen of letters and art, you must improve the character of your journalism. I do not intend to come to this country again until this thing is changed." Which is certainly a delightfully naive speech for Oscar to make...
...nine has not yet gone into the gymnasium owing to the absence of some of its members who have not yet returned, but we expect that in a short time they will begin their winter's training. The material for a strong nine is very promising, in fact, we shall have the strongest in-field this year that we have ever had, and a good out-field as well. The only place vacant is that of pitcher, for which there will probably be four or five men in training during the winter...
...students in the English universities have broken down under the mental strain produced by their studies, searching investigations are being made into the entire system of instruction and requirements for degrees. If the stolid and hearty English frame cannot bear up under such an intense strain, how can we expect our American youth, with its constitutionally nervous temperament, to endure a long continued and severe course of study? Our burdens are continually growing heavier, owing to the ambitious rivalry between our colleges; will it not soon be found out that everything cannot be taught a man in a course...
...expect a man entirely unaccustomed to labor to do a hard day's work, neither can we expect one whose brain has been comparatively inactive to commence suddenly upon ten hours of work each day. Yet this is precisely what many of us are doing, and when our exhausted mind refuses to go further, we complain of the great amount of work laid upon us, and say that no human being could reasonably be expected to do it, forgetting that in most cases the fault lies in ourselves, and our own faithfulness from...
Rowdyism among the Princeton students has recently taken on a reprehensible shape. A short time ago, in addition to cutting up other criminal pranks, those promising candidates for collegiate honors greased the rails of the nearest railroad, causing much annoyance to the authorities. The next thing we expect to hear of the young men is that they have taken to train wrecking for sport. Ordinary methods of amusement are becoming too tame, it seems, at Princeton...