Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...necessarily mean either the subordination of the captain or a lessening of his influence, nor does it mean the institution of a system of coaching whereby the head coach is to rule, as a despot, roughshod over rowing traditions or over undergraduate ideas. To those who expect or await the establishment of such a dictator to govern Harvard rowing I express an opinion that they are doomed to disappointment. There has never been encouraged in any sport that sort of control; and I hope there never will be a time when the undergraduate is to work under a system which...
...recent finds of papyri in Egypt and by the wonderful achievements of archaeological research. The recovery of certain works of Sappho, Sophocles, and Menander enables us to sketch more clearly periods and figures of literature that were somewhat obscure to our ancestors. Who knows what may yet await the student, perchance at Herculaneum, if he is far-sighted enough to prepare himself for future prospects by labor with the Classics that we have? The great archaeological conquests of the last fifty years, when used with caution, permit us to re-create more vividly than our forerunners the environment in which...
...this number fourteen of the brethren--all of the Class of 1916--present specimens of their wares. We presume that editors from coast to coast will eagerly seize upon this illustrated catalogue of Harvard's annual output. Poems? Sanger, Clark, Jopling, Denison, Leffingwell, Reniers, and Cutler await orders. Stories? Nelson, Courtney, Murdock and Crane, at your service. Convenient little page-fillers in prose? Apply to Amory, Boyden, and Lamont...
Plans have been approved by the Department of Geology, and await the final approval of the University Faculty, for another geological excursion to the mountains of Colorado. These plans would make it possible for students to take a five weeks' course, for which one-half credit will be given, or to remain eight weeks, and, on submitting a satisfactory written report on the field work, secure one full course credit...
...calme absolute. Like the lieutenant-colonel who came from Metz and longed for his reverence, they yearned for the day of the great advance. It may still be a long time before it comes, but most of those who have seen the French army at work will await with serene confidence the final issue...