Word: await
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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There is probably no single feature which so impresses a neutral spectator at a Harvard-Princeton, Yale-Princeton, or Yale-Harvard game as the traditional snake-dance ceremony, wherein the victors march to the stands where the vanquished await them, for an exchange of cheers. Saturday Princeton cheered Yale and Yale cheered Princeton with a heartiness unexcelled during the game--a striking evidence of the good feeling existing between the two Universities. Visitors from New Haven found quite as warm hospitality at Princeton as they have found at Cambridge in the alternate years, and it is this fact as much...
...affair of the American people alone, but its issue is the concern of all the world. Our interest is perhaps deeper than that of other countries, and the reason for it naturally lies in our common history and in ideals long shared. These together give us the right to await the result with confidence, sure that the deep humanity and sturdy rectitude of judgment which are the heritage of men of English speech will once again prevail. The London Times
...impressed more and more by the sentiment, but less and less by the finality of the occasion. He begins to sense the true significance of "Commencement," that graduation is only the beginning, not the end, and that the college world is a small one compared to those which still await conquest...
...American as any political device that has yet been suggested by anybody. This system has invited, indeed has almost compelled, huge expenditures on the part of those who have fallen victims to its solicitations, and yet it has proved nothing except that the great mass of Republican voters await with entire confidence the unprejudiced and untrammeled discussion by the delegates to the National Convention...
...Yard by the Johnston Gate with automobiles, escorted by a mounted guard of some forty men from the present Harvard Field Artillery Unit, and will drive up to the steps of Widener Library where the members of the Harvard Regiment and the other groups will be drawn up to await them. General Pershing and his party will enter the Library to view the photographs of the Harvard men who gave their lives in the war, and as they come out again, a battery of the Field Artillery Unit will fire a military salute...