Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notable was the somersaults forward and backward in the air; that is, clean turns from feet to feet without the interposition of any part of the body.* This performance was simply incidental with me, as I have been doing all these turns for something like 60 years, and expect to continue doing them some years longer...
...granting for the moment Beethoven's emotional power his genius is nowhere more evident than in the structure of his symphonies, quartets, and pianoforte works. In such a masterpiece, e.g., as the Fifth Symphony (that in C minor), everything is just right; when led up to a climax, we expect something, we get it. Then how marvelously is our excitement assuaged without being allowed to die out entirely! The valleys, tablelands, and mountain peaks have the same convincing symmetry as nature herself. Edward Elgar, the eminent English composer, well says, "A modern composer, while listening to the C Minor Symphony...
...time spent in the club plane Spalding leads with 40 hours to his credit. The other pilots follow: Snow, 30 hours; Pabst, 20 hours; Otis, 16 hours; and Ames, 9 hours. Five additional men expect to qualify this summer as pilots, either in the Naval Flight School at Squantum or by taking private instruction. They are: R. W. Ayer '28, Brutus Brooks ocC., W. N. Bump '28, M. N. Fairbank '28, R. E. Gregg '28, and F. P. Sprout '28. Ayer, Bump and Gregg expect to go to Squantum; Brooks and Fairbank will take instructions at Curtiss Field, Kong Island...
When students become uncontrollable the police have a perfect right to interfere but when the arm of the law strikes out unknowingly and unjustly the act assumes a sour aspect and deserves authoritative attention and immediate investigation. No police force can expect the cooperation of students when such uncalled for action is taken and we hope that episodes of this kind will not be repeated if mutual understanding between the undergraduates and the law is to prosper. Cornell Daily...
Just a year ago, in a letter to the President of the CRIMSON, Mr. Hallowell wrote: "Now that we have all acquired the 'booster' spirit, I expect to continue to sing the praises of the CRIMSON and its Board, the Student Council, the Dean's Office, the new athletic regime, and in fact, everything with a Crimson tinge. We will, of course, have occasion to criticize in the future, as in the past; Harvard would miss something of value if her undergraduates and Alumni did not criticise, but away with solely destructive criticism, and all hall to criticism...