Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plan of voluntary chapel is working finely; on some mornings nearly twenty chaps will be there, and on others the number will be raised to twenty-five, but these are all freshman, and it is thought that, by Easter, the chapel will be closed to await the arrival of the next freshman class...
...team which is hereafter formed, as our share in promoting the welfare of the game. If the 'varsity could make an arrangement granting Jarvis when unoccupied by the 'varsity games after they are arranged, we think there would be sufficient encouragement for the formation of such amateur teams. Many await the revival of Interest in this sport with much interest as by this means of scretch playing many good men are brought to the front...
...students of Yale may feel that, whatever shall be the action of their faculty, they will receive the sympathy of their friends at Harvard. Later advices state that the report circulated is without foundation. The words with which Professor Richards is credited, however, seem so decisive that we await more precise information...
...remains to get Columbia's consent. When the proposal made by Yale was forwarded by the managers of the Harvard crew to Columbia, she refused to give any decision in the matter until she heard the opinion of our freshman class. This opinion has been rendered, and the freshmen await the result with anxiety. We trust that future Harvard freshmen will never be compelled to regret the action...
...ministry practicable in this 19th century? Some professions are incidental and transitory. This we cannot so consider. Men need good leadership to-day. The country will always feel the effects of the pusilanimity of the ministers of fifty years ago in the anti-slavery agitation. Many reforms await the hand of the minister of to-day. The value of the spiritual above the material life, and the brotherhood of humanity, are the two things for the minister to teach. A definite creed is not necessary, if he puts before men the things which he feels would benefit them if they...