Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duel a day no insurance to pay" has accordingly become the national motto. A prominent politician, following a speech in the Diet, may expect to receive not less than half a dozen challenges from the leaders of the opposition. As the challenger always pays the expenses, the person challenged usually arranges his acceptances in order of the social standing of his adversary, it being considered a bit ulcer to be killed by a former Viscount than by a mere Captain of Hussars. Rival store-keepers now settle their differences with sword and pistol rather than by cutthroat competition. Most important...
...sail on the "Touraine" expect to land at Cherbourg about June 21, and to have approximately four weeks in France. The official list of these men follows...
...Sciences and the Faculty of Education to be operated as a "School of Arts and Sciences and of Education", the Summer School at the University will hold a single six weeks' session this year, opening on Tuesday, July 5, and closing on Saturday, August 13. As the authorities expect a large registration for the courses of the School, which will number over 100 and will cover 28 subjects, they have reserved all three of the Freshman Halls for Summer School students, constituting a larger dormitory space than has been available for the School since the war. The charges for board...
...college we should not need the petty rules which are required of the school boy. For that very reason we should assume as a matter of course the strict and uniform enforcement of the few rules we have. It is hardly to be expected that habits of promptness and obedience will be a part of a Harvard education--and they certainly ought to be when there are courses in which a report may be handed in days after it was due. Such an attitude towards scholastic work is just the opposite of that adopted by men in college activities. There...
...Expect Record From Gourdin