Word: expected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professor in German VI., after completing the very interesting tragedy, Emilia Galotti, by Lessing, expects to take up Wieland's Oberon. The selection seems a poor one and cannot interest the students. Wieland's works cannot be compared with those of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller. Goethe's Faust was read in this course last year and proved to be uninteresting and too hard for the students; why take up Wieland's Oberon, a work even harder to understand? Why make the student read works containing forms no longer in use, when he is not familiar with modern forms of speech...
...MORROW brings, rain or shine, the game with Yale. In behalf of the Team we thank the College for the general support which it has given this fall, and especially for the enthusiasm evinced by two hundred men having signed for tickets to New Haven. What we may expect with the Yale team is a hard-fought, fiercely contested match; what we trust we may expect of the spectators are actions which are consistent with emulation rather than enmity. The Eleven has our most sincere wishes for success...
...plan was given up on account of the lack of interest shown. This year, however, the two societies have effected a union, and have leased Roberts Hall on Brattle Street, where they intend to give joint concerts every six weeks or so. In thus uniting, the societies do not expect to lose their separate identity, that is, each is at liberty to accept invitations out of Cambridge without consulting the other...
...time to part with all the dear ones at home had come. That morning his grandmamma had taken him apart and had said, "You're getting a big boy now, Henry, and it is necessary that you go out into the world to seek your fortune. You cannot expect to live in this forest all your days, you know. But before you go let me give you this magic scrap of paper, which will carry you safely even to the very cave of the giant Bowsir, whom you will remember to treat with great respect, for he loves polite little...
CAPTAIN HAMMOND does not expect his men to recite with the Sophomore crew or kick at the examinations. Thus the division of interest, simple and complicated, will be avoided...