Word: expected
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been alert in every game, practice winning the Harvard game for Yale; took a chance by picking up a loose ball instead of falling on it. McLean was a spectacular at times in the Yale-Princeton game, but, taking the season as whole, he has not shown the expect improvement over last year. McGraw inexperienced...
...lady complained that all the types were alike: There was no variety, all the colors were dull, all the landscape equally mournful. Now this is actually to condemn not merely individual consistency of mood but the consistency in spirit of an entire nation throughout the ages. Did she expect Spain to cast off her mourning and giggle? Did she seek for a soda fountain in Segovia? Did she want the devil on the church steeple? If she did I call her a fool, if she did not I place her in the ranks of those who fail to recognize, calling...
...defeat of both Cornell and Princeton has been a failure. A victory over Yale on Saturday is all that is needed to make this season as successful as those of recent years and though we are to face an unusually strong Eli team, it is not unreasonable to expect a victory...
...body not so frequently in evidence, but since no remarkable dancing is seen and this, coupled with an absence of beauty, we wonder for what function this good old American Institution is intended; if just to pass the time we lose patience, for we long ago have ceased to expect real singing...
...startling and forceful way, Mr. Sunday reminded the many undergraduates in his audience that "it takes more than a mortar board cap, a diploma, a fraternity pin and a bull-dog pipe to make a man. You can't expect to get an education out of a four-years' college course. You just get started. Keep at it all your life and you will get part of an education if you are among the successful. Don't build your character like a woman fixes a sewing machine--removing everything that should be left stationary and putting oil on the belt...