Word: expected
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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England has a right to expect of us at least as good treatment as we received at her hands during the Civil War. Although, at that time, the happiness of a large number of her laborers and the prosperity of a great industry depended on peace in America, England refrained from recognizing the Southern Confederacy. In the present crisis we must play fair with Britain. England best understands the Irish questions; let the decision be hers...
...former methods of financing China were followed in the immediate future. If a consortium of this nature can provide the funds and appoint a commission on which there shall be representatives of China as well as of the great powers which lend the money, China may reasonably expect thereby very great assistance in her momentous problem of securing international peace and the establishment of the country as an independent and wholesome member of the family of nations...
Basketball as a major sport at least within two years, if not next year, is the hope of the Physical Training Department of the University. It is natural to expect that the 25 Freshmen who are now reporting for the 1923 team will be anxious to form a University five next year; in addition to these, there are many men in the University who have played basketball on their school teams, but have not had the opportunity here at College. Such men as these the Department plans to accommodate by means of informal games throughout the winter. The Freshmen meanwhile...
...intelligence of the nation cannot be raised, we cannot expect wise action on the part of the whole people in the complicated problems of modern democratic life, if their schooling is meagre formal, and sterile. At present, the vast majority of the children of this country receive less than six years of schooling, and what they receive is often not well ordered or given by effective, modern methods...
...tumult and the shouting of the war have died away. Tales of stark daring fall on ears that have heard hundreds of such tales before. The seamen of the "Suicide Squadron" will not get, and doubtless do not expect, the welcome that greeted those who returned earlier. Yet the world will be eternally, though silently, grateful to those men who, forsaking the paths of safety and even the comparative ease of showing bravery in the heat of battle, have quietly gone about their hazardous task. Theirs, unassuming and unadvertised, is the highest glory...