Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yards of gain, it wears itself out and is certain to be stopped eventually at the end of such a long march." MacPhail went on to say that if a Dartmouth team cannot make at least one long gain in a 40 yard advance the coach does not expect it to score...
...five years ago, and the Board of Directors believe that it should be re-established as a regular feature, to enable wandering graduates to meet fellow graduates and friends. All the Harvard Clubs in the eastern part of the country have been notified of the plan, and the secretaries expect between 600 and 700 people for the stand-up collation in the living room, which will take place from 11.30 to 1 o'clock...
MISS HOUGH in "Not for Publication" presents a story of everyday life in an average town situated, presumably, on the Case. Pomanset is its name, Boston its exemplar of good taste, and it boasts of two daily papers, the Banner and the News. One could not reasonably expect extraordinary developments from such a situation. Miss Hough has not attempted the ridiculous...
President Eliot added: "Knowing the difficulties of observing with precision over a long period of restrictions of a definite or detailed character especially as regards the purchase of books, I should expect that some latitude would be used in interpreting the scope of each of the subjects specified, and I should also prefer to regard these subjects as suggestive rather than mandatory...