Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debaters declare, however, that they are not in the least dismayed by having their subject snatched away. They point out that the Ruhr affair was only one aspect of the far greater problem of reparations. In the latter field they expect to find much food for argument...
...impossible to expect that all these will work out at the first. But they are all evidences of the effort which has been made to reach a more perfect working arrangement between the student and the college. There is no doubt that the authorities have done much to ameliorate conditions in the University. Whether the much which remains to be done will be done depends to a large extent on the success of the present ventures. 930 plus freshman is a large order but the continual increase of members of undergraduates will test innovations the more severely. If undergraduates...
...then reserves a surprise for the end in the shape of an unexpected technicality. This frees the hero after he has had the satisfaction of slaying the villain, and consequently causes great rejoicing to all, and no little surprise to the people on the stage, who never seem to expect felicitous endings. As is customary, the villain is a rejected suitor of the heroine, while naturally, the hero is the accepted one. Filled with well-simulated hatred, the villain arranges a charming little scene, in which he murders his double and escapes, leaving the fainting hero to hold...
...need of establishing a tutorial system for men concentrating in literature becomes" in the words of the report "clearer every year." But however clear the need may have become, there has been up to the present no visible attempt to satisfy it. To expect students without tutorial guidance adequately to prepare themselves for examinations which are really general can have only two results; either the men will not be adequately prepared or the examinations will not be general. Actually both faults are common, and the chief value of the general examination--an impetus to extended and general reading--is likely...
Year after year new students come to Harvard. Year after year they are confused by the multiplicity of things that they have to do. Many are without rooms, many expect to meet friends, and yet few know how to find their way around the University, where to board, or how to solve the thousand and one problems that confront them. If they are lucky enough to know someone in the University their way is easier. However, for the man who is just entering, who knows no one, the road is hard and memories of the first trying days...