Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Coach W. E. Quinn also said that the men must work hard and diligently, practicing at least five days a week in the field events. Men must not expect to do well after one month's practice or even after one year...
...than our prize athletes, represent the type of men for which there is public need. The competitions must be so arranged that the prize winners justify the selection by their subsequent life. But have our prize winners done as much for the public as it has a right to expect? That the men who have won scholastic distinction at Harvard have later won more than their proportionate share of honor in the outside world has been shown by Professor Lowell's investigations. Though this is equally true in other colleges, the proportion is not nearly so decisive as it should...
...trouble; if he makes too many arrests, he becomes disliked by the other policemen and by the sergeant. On the other hand, if he neglects his duties, he gets the favor of the ward politician and promotion follows. Until the police department is taken out of politics, we cannot expect a truly efficient force...
...football team is to be congratulated upon the election of Captain Fish, for by his ability as a field captain he has already won the confidence of the University. He has an opportunity before him to continue the successes of this year, and there is every reason to expect that he will prove a worth successor to Captain Burr...
...other years, but through the desire to have a thoroughly capable and well-trained band at Yale Field, such as will be found on the opposite side of the gridiron. This standard of excellence is obviously beyond the range of a student organization and it is too much to expect of it. The University band as constituted at present hangs together only through the perseverance of a few men who assume the responsibility to do what they can with the material available and make use of what outside talent they can secure. It is not a Pierian Sodality institution though...