Word: expected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feel that their lack of success has been due fully as much to ill-support form the college as to continued poor work on the part of the team itself. Today there will be a chance for both the college and the nine to redeem themselves We expect the nine to play a steady winning game from the start. From the college the team will look for loyal support and enthusiasm. It may seem strange that there should be any doubt that the college would do its part in an important game. Those who witnessed the first Princeton game, however...
What right has the college to expect victories on land or water if they do not back up their teams better. not with money but by their presence, by their cheers and by every man offering himself for what he may be worth to Harvard...
...feel ashamed for us. Discouragement is in the very air. Not among the teams, but on the part of the students, yet their apathy affects the athletic men, it can not help but do so. So long as the students of Harvard, as they have done this year, expect defeat and feel as if they had given up hoping for victory, we shall keep on being beaten. At the base ball games this spring the listless undergraduate spirit has been all too evident. We hope that this letter will be read by every student and that it will teach...
...result of the yesterday's cricket match was disappointing. The Harvard eleven did not do as well as they had given us every reason to expect. while Haverford played a very strong game, especially in the field. Notwithstanding the rain and soft ground the game was close and interesting...
...objection to a custom that is sanctioned both by precedent and by reason. Class day is the greatest day in the whole college course and every man whether he is a senior or not ought to be willing to help to make it a success. If underclassmen expect courtesy to be shown them at their graduation they must be willing to show the same courtesy. In the case of graduates. They ought to return the favor they have received from others...