Word: awaited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would use too much water, or else afraid of its being wasted by being left running. But in either case, why are the faucet in the tub baths of the proper kind? Surely it were well to be consistent. With this hint at a much needed improvement I await a result...
...hours of the day are the play-ground of youths who find no better enjoyment than in foul language and in playing hockey, polo they call it, upon the effeminate grass. The only active pump in the yard is their headquarters, and the thirsty student is often compelled to await his turn until the individual members of the detail of muckerism which happens to have precedence over him have sufficiently amused themselves and their comrades by various feats of agility of which the pump is the prime motor. It is useless for the faculty to attempt to rejuvenate the sickly...
...hold another meeting in about a month, when such questions as may arise in regard to the construction of the above described status of an "amateur," will be settled. From appearances, then, we may expect this spring a very comprehensive and accurate description of an "amateur," and may also await with considerable curiosity, the position of our Athletic Committee on the definition, if they deign to notice...
...Harvard men, that he needs no particular introduction to their notice. Both by his long experience upon the stage, and the scholarly attributes of mind which distinguish him as an actor and manager, he is pre-eminently qualified to speak upon the subject of Dramatic Art. The college will await his coming with interest...
Monday was a great day in the history of this college. Long and eagerly did we await the coming of that morn which was to usher in the day of days. For on that day we were to behold the reforms which the directors of the Dining Association were to inaugurate in the mid-day meal, vulgarly known as the Monday lunch...