Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...make an estimate of how much money we could expect to raise each year, and what would be the expense of running such a system...
...letter to the Crimson a few months ago, showed at length that the "lives" amount to little more than a farce. "Less than sixty per cent. of the class write anything at all," he wrote; and if this is the case with ordinary classes, what can we expect from Seventy-Seven? The class has been so much divided by the "unpleasantness " arising from this year's elections, that even the usual amount of class-feeling does not exist; accordingly less interest than ever before will be taken in any class work, and an undue proportion of "lives" must inevitably...
EVER since that memorable confusion of tongues which we are told took place quite a number of years ago on the plain of Shinar, there has been an ever-increasing tendency among mortals to divergency in idiom and pronunciation of speech, even among those people whom we should expect to have the greatest points of similarity. One of the many curious features of college life is the bovine persistency with which some of our students stick to errors in pronunciation acquired in early youth: Among the poor and uneducated, considering the few opportunities for improvement, slovenly and vulgar pronunciation...
...novel-reading our pleasure is confined wholly to the finite. If any future author shall be pleased to lay the scene of his story in Jupiter or Neptune, we shall not experience, but until that time we wish to see ourselves mirrored, and not the Jovials or the in-expect to find anything in common with our habitants of any ideal planet...
...that some of the best rooms in the Yard, - as some in Hollis and Stoughton, - are let at very low prices. Thus it is certain that every student can get a good room here in proportion to his means; but those who are willing only to pay $70 cannot expect as good accommodations as those who pay $300. There is a class of writers for the College papers who seize upon some imaginary wrong of this description with avidity, as it affords them a subject upon which to write. These little attempts are harmless enough when carefully pruned...