Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above this level. But he must adapt himself to the changed conditions between college and practical work. This drop from the graduation class at college to office boy is greater than that from President of the Senior Class at Andover to Freshman at Harvard. The Freshman does not expect his diploma at mid year of his Freshman year. Let us hope that the college man will not expect his reward within an unreasonable time--the time to be reckoned by the law of business averages...
...world. After an apprenticeship in a Canadian Bank of some seven or eight years, a man is eligible for assignment as manager to a branch bank at a salary of about $8000 a year. Unattractive? Financially, yes, if you place against that the $10,000 a year you may expect to make selling, say shoe-strings. But are you sure that you are one of the men who is to make $10,000? A comparatively few men earn that amount. Suppose you sell shoe-strings, what is your world -- shoe-strings -- what do you know -- shoe-strings? On the other...
...goes without saying that to build up an entirely new organization is no small task, but it is even harder to win undergraduate support. Substantial backing is given to hockey, to baseball, to crew--but "what is new is not valuable". Of course, it is only right to expect that the team should make a definite bid for our interest--undoubtedly it will; but while it is getting started, we might well meet it halfway. The schedule includes the first Harvard-Yale basket-ball game in nearly fifteen years--another chance to beat the Elis. The season as a whole...
After completing the studies at Cerro de Pasco, the investigators expect to spend a short time at Ticleo, on the watershed of the Andes. Ticleo, which is at an altitude of 16,000 feet, is the highest standard gauge railroad station in the world. They will return by February first, and later in the year Mr. Bancroft will give a series of lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston...
...view of the foregoing, is it not reasonable that a Sophomore should expect consideration immediately after the Juniors and Seniors, with the exception, of course, of the University squad and coaching staff...