Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...current Nation contains a letter from an indignant Yale undergraduate on the "senior society evil" at that college. We await the next number of the Nation with interest, feeling sure that the angry replies will be numerous. The subject of the Yale societies is a very troublesome one just at present. Frame time to time, we hear of some distinguished graduate who attacks these societies of his alma mater and who ridicules the customs to which they give rise. We, at Harvard, have long made a standing joke of the air of mystery which attaches to all the numerous pins...
...certain that our men are to meet an eleven with which it is a pleasure to play and from which they are to receive nothing but the fairest and most gentlemanly treatment. The heartiest good wishes of with the team on this trip and a joyous welcome will await them if they succeed in bringing back the laurels of victory...
...more profitable one, than he who sacrifices all for the coveted 'marks.' He may even make frequent failures in the class-room where the other makes none and yet be his superior at the end of four years in all that equips a man for the stern realities that await him in life's battle...
...lack of energy and sincerity it has made its name a by-word and a source of ridicule throughout the college. Instead of striving to lesson the amount of intemperance, it has issued a number of shingles, and now, contented, it sits with folded hands and tearful eyes awaiting the regeneration of the students. If this is the method to be used to check intoxication, it may fairly be asked why on earth the society was ever started, for its mission seems to be only to foolishly await a better state of affairs without aiding it on in the least...
...number of the members of the sophomore class at Bowdoin have left town to await developments. At the morning prayers at the chapel, Sunday morning, there were present but eight members of the class, the rest voluntarily absenting themselves. They refuse to attend recitations or college exercises, having agreed to the same. President Chamberlain has arrived in Brunswick, and has the affair in consideration...