Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman committee is not alone to be blamed for the present failure of the plan. Two hundred names shows an encouraging interest, but it is ridiculous to expect or ask the Freshman class alone to insure a University dining hall. In the first place many of the first year men look forward to election to clubs in the fall and others entertain vaguer hopes. It is too much to expect men in this situation to bind themselves to a club table even for a half year. In the second place it is merely aphoristic to remark that before there...
...make it a point to keep its beat team at home, this argument does not seem valid. We must admit practical objections but we can not include under this head the failure of a college to fulfill in a gentlemanly fashion its share of a mutual agreement. Harvard should expect her graduates as should also Yale to follow their respective athletic heads in a guiding policy of "mutual trust...
...disclosures in the Sacco-Vanzetti petition, the New York World said: "What comes out of all these statements is a picture not of a judge but of an agitated little man looking for publicity and utterly impervious to the ethical standards one has the right to expect of a man presiding in a capital case." Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller studied the Sacco-Vanzetti petition, said his mind was not made up on what procedure to follow. He received from Chicago a lurid deaththreat. It read: "Hon. Alvin: "If you will execute Sacco and Vanzetti, we are going to murder...
...exception rather than the rule. "I turned over the chair of mathematics at Boone to a Chinese gentleman who is a graduate of Columbia. He furthermore took a postgraduate course at Princeton. He is anti-Bolshevik, and, while, essentially pro-Chinese, he is nevertheless strongly pro-America. I fully expect that he will carry on the good work in China quite as well as I would be able to do it myself...
Said Bull-slayer Villalta, earner of $50,000 per annum for plying his trade: "I find that my audiences now expect me to completely despatch the bull in a maximum of 20 minutes. . . . Never, during my American tour, did I disappoint them...