Word: awaiting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inadequacy of the Hemenway Gymnasium for any kind of organized sport. Basketball deserves better support than it now receives, but until the candidates can be better accommodated the game is not very likely to flourish. When the building has been thoroughly renovated, conditions will be somewhat better; but we await in patient hope the time when some loyal graduate will present us with a new gymnasium, or at least put the present one into such shape that we shall not be obliged to receive visiting teams in a building of which we are thoroughly ashamed...
Although the eyes of most undergraduates will be focused on the Princeton baseball game, to be played on Soldiers Field this afternoon, we shall await with almost equal interest the result of the dual track meet at New Haven. Unfortunately, both the Harvard teams will go into the contests handicapped by the poor condition of some of their best players and runners; but, despite the apprehension that these reports have caused during the past few days, we hope for and expect a two-fold victory. The baseball team has already shown its "fighting" spirit, and we feel that the track...
...meeting of the American Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee held Saturday at the Murray hill Hotel, New York, the following recommendations were given out as tentative, to await final action at the next meeting on February...
...right to speak with authority, said Bishop Brent, as to what our policy in regard to the Phillippine Islands should be. We must weigh carefully what people conversant with Phillippine conditions tell us, but should await further developments before coming to a final conclusion. There are two reasons why we should become united with the islanders,--first, because as Americans we are in a great measure responsible for them, and second, because by becoming more closely allied with them we can more easily stretch out a Christian hand to aid them...
...than in 1869 and this project also failed. In 1898 the Legislature passed an act authorizing the erection of a dam at a point near St. Mary's street, above Harvard Bridge, but as this was not considered a suitable place the authorities decided not to act, but to await more favorable concessions. The present committee, which was appointed by Governor Crane's Legislature, has reported that the conditions have changed since the Harbor and Land Commissioners made their report, and Mr. Frothingham considers that its recommendations will now be passed by the Legislature, although the actual work cannot...