Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect it to be radical? Should trade unions give up the very certain fruits of a semi-monopoly for the shadowy benefits of a collectivistic chimera? In America population has not begun to strip the overflowing bread-basket; elsewhere laborers in millions are deprived of all but the barest minimum, as the limit of population has been reached or even overstepped. In America competition is strong, but it is competition for the best fruits of industry; abroad workers compete for the mere right to survive. Decidedly, foreign laborers, made desperate by economic inevitabilities, are ready to strike...
...judge a university by the actions of certain bodies of its undergraduates after a football victory. Even in this country, where we are all, supposedly, one people, it would be impossible to draw a thousand athletes together for competitions without friction of some sort. Is it sensible, then, to expect perfect harmony among the athletes of many nations, all strung up to the tautest pitch of excitement? And is it sensible to regard any personal reaction to that excitement as the expression of the offending athlete's country...
There was the famous case, of course, of the Italian-Hungarian duel-and of the Frenchiboxer who bit the ear of his English opponent. But what can you expect, in all common-sense? It is not so very long ago that individual members of rival football team, both Americans, and both supposedly united by the bond of a higher education, would "fight it out" by themselves after the game, is it so harrowing that two strangers, who have spent years in preparation to stake their reputations on the swing of a blade, should do the same? And the biting incident...
...influx of Russian nobles. Society of gay French capital is in no frenzy of excitement "of the prospect of leaving so much royalty in its midst. For here is to such prospect. Denounced by the Dowager Empress and her loyal following "Czar" Cyril frankly admits he does not expect "a very big assembly...
...beat so-and-so," and vociferous exhortations to get behind the team. To some, this sort of thing may seem sacred, but the majority of students are no reason why the squad should need or deserve continual demonstrations of their approval. The honor men do not expect the gratitude of their fellows; the debaters need no mass meeting to inspite their efforts the track men do not curl up and quit if the Stadium is not filled with an enthusiastic throng. The best interests of the University are not necessarily served by a winning football team nor the best spirit...