Word: expects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English 7, notice was given that the lecture devoted to Gay and Prior would not be required for the examination. In spite of this declaration, however, one of the required questions was upon these two authors, and another required question contained passages from these authors, which we were expected to recognize. It would seem, therefore, that "someone had blundered," or that our instructors expect us to be prepared on subjects from which they themselves excuse...
...Royce, and Messers Preble and Parker. Dr. Royce, Mr. Wendell and Dr. Taussig, each have, we understand, a book in preparation. Apart from the natural pride we feel in seeing these gentlemen appear in print, we are gratified over this literary activity because of the practical benefits we expect will accrue therefrom to Harvard. It is rightly the constant end and aim of this university to seek to increase the proportion of workers among its students. Some drones there must be here, of course, so long as the university is poor; for the drones play as important a part...
...noble calling. It is at once a life-saving and a life-sacrificing employment. To be sure, many are lost, but then how many more are saved. We are forcibly reminded of the noble exploits of our life-saving service on the sea-coast. Some day we may expect the rescued men to erect some grand memorial to the tutors...
...have such homage part to Harvard students, and it may be the real feeling of many who profess to think otherwise. The young lady was evidently much surprised that she could travel alone out to the wilds of Chicago and Athol, and went prepared as some Europeans who expect to find Indians in Boston...
...useful and even indispensable as far as it goes, but that it does not go far enough. A stranger who had been looking over the publication of a like nature which other colleges have, and marked their wealth of illustration and the variety of their pages, would doubtless expect to fine that the greatest University of the country had gotten up something very choice and desirable; but how rudely would the feelings of that stranger be shocked when he saw the plain little handbook that does duty with...