Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...them, instead of New London, where their presence would be merely tolerated rather than welcomed. A flat refusal to superintend the proposed race on any conditions whatever was only prevented by a desire to avoid an appearance of incivility in the face of a public which could not be expected to understand the difficulties of the case. Perhaps the last straw which turned the balance was the dislike of the managers to say "No" when one of the applicants from Harvard was "a New London boy;" but they clearly kept in mind the theory that this first Freshman race...
...even when his self-appointed judge is a person ill-informed and powerless. Hence I beg leave to ask such collegians at Cambridge as think it wise to have the historic name of "Harvard" publicly championed upon the water by her youngest and greenest representatives, "Is it reasonable to expect that the New London managers, after receiving this abuse for an accident for which they were perfectly blameless, should take upon their shoulders the burden of providing for Freshmen crews, whose presence upon the Thames would add another element to the already sufficiently difficult task of conducting without accident...
...this state of things to continue? We do not wish to be considered discourteous to the other sex, but when they assume the rights of men, they must expect to be treated like men. Harvard College was established for the education of men, as its charter implicitly if not explicitly declares, and unless it is openly announced as a co-educational institution, all women thus encroaching upon College rooms and College privileges are interlopers. If the Harvard Annex is merely another expression for co-education, as the course they have taken seems to prove, let us have no Annex whatever...
...that the instructor cannot give as much time to each one as is essential to intelligent progress; and in view of this fact, some step should be taken to make the course equally profitable to all who have elected it for the purpose of getting the best results. To expect a student to wait a half hour for his turn with the instructor without losing his equanimity, to say nothing of the waste of time, is unreasonable. The course is too valuable and popular to hope for a reduction in the number from voluntary changes of electives, while the expenses...
...privilege of voluntary recitations whenever he deems fit. This appears to us to be taxing one person with more responsibility than human nature is capable of bearing; especially when we remember that formerly punishments were carefully assigned for each class of neglect. Then a student knew just what to expect for any breach of observance of College discipline, but now he is left in suspense. We are reminded, too, that in the world outside, the common experience of many generations has shunned giving absolute power to officers of the law, for fear of abuse or error, so that a judge...