Word: expectations
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...well brings out the Puritan loyalty to England at the very moment of the Separatists' revolt against the worldliness of the Established Church; but he seems unduly to emphasize the political aspect of their emigration; and he tends to make Harvard's seriousness rather more solemn than one should expect in an eternal benefactor of youth, "bearing contentment in his heart." I will not speak of occasional infelicities of phrase in this commendable attempt to give expression to the feelings of gratitude and the sense of duty which are our common inheritance...
Undergraduate tickets for the John Harvard celebration parade can now be obtained at the Co-operative at 35 cents each. Each ticket is good for one sash and one torch. As the number is limited these tickets must be obtained immediately by all undergraduates who expect to attend the exercises...
...understand that Dartmouth college is coming to Cambridge today with the firm expectation of seeing their team victorious. Every effort has been directed toward this their last and most important game of the season, while Harvard still has to look forward to its big contest. We realize that nothing we can say will lead them to abandon their convictions, but we expect our team to gradually disillusionize them this afternoon. For several weeks the University team has failed to display the playing of which it is capable. We have the coaches and the players who can produce a strong team...
Undergraduate tickets for the John Harvard celebration parade can now be obtained at the Co-operative at 35 cents each. Each ticket is good for one sash and one torch. As the number is limited these tickets must be obtained immediately, by all undergraduates who expect to attend the exercises in the Stadium. Graduate tickets for admittance to the Stadium may be obtained free of charge at the Co-operative or by application to G. G. Glass '08, Box 11, Cambridge, Mass...
More harmful than the inconvenience which all must suffer form the so-called good-nation of the susceptible, is the lasting effect upon the characters of the youthful mendicants. We have no right to expect that a class of children of the grammar school age--or even younger--who are educated to believe in their right to extort money from "the students" by cringing or bullying, will outgrow the harm which such a practice has done them. Let us harden our hearts and endure the imprecations, of disappointed petitioners rather than encourage a noxious custom for the sake of temporary...