Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wholly false light. We do not want to win the championship by tricks, if by "tricks" "X" means anything underhanded or unfair. All the sentiment of the University is against it. As "X" declares, we already know the essentially fine points of the game. What we should hope and expect to receive at the hands of professionals would be a few sound drubbings. It would be the best practice in the world. The nines we have met so far this year have not once called forth our best efforts. With one exception the games have all been extremely one-sided...
...play rather for the pleasure of it than for any more ambitious aim. It is hoped that Ninety-One will furnish several good men. We can certainly not complain of our prospects in this branch of athletics, but we must not be so short-sighted as to expect that we can claim the prize without taking thought of the future. Some of our best players will go out with '88 and although '89 is a bulwark of strength we must not depend on her too much...
...affair. If the number of notices of rehearsals which have appeared daily in the CRIMSON for past weeks are to be taken as criterions of conscientious work, the audience should be treated to something startling in its originality and of surpassing excellence in its production. The college will also expect the Freshman Glee Club to do its share in driving away dull care during the long spring and summer evenings, by entertaining the inmates of the dormitories in the yard with songs of mirth and jollity...
...sundries should be reduced as before by at least $75. The items, janitor, fees, and extra travel, should be struck out, subscriptions and societies together reduced by $10, and theatres, dinners and parties by $5-for these are luxuries in which a man with a small purse would not expect to indulge. It is doubtful whether a man living economically would feel able to spend $20 for travelling, but since the author makes a special point of this item, it may be allowed to stand. The changes suggested would bring the total of this grade to about...
...Stroke, Herrick; 7, Hutchinson; 6, Hartridge; 5, Sanford; 4, Sturgis; 3, Tyson; 2, Crowinshield; bow, Crehore. The crews, with the exception of the freshmen, are beginning to get into good form and keep time together. The crews seems to be pretty evenly matched, and there is every reason to expect a close and exciting finish at the class races next...