Word: defer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...used to say that tennis was only fit for the delicate Harvard man. Can it be that Yale grows mild ? We'll defer the answer until we see the eleven play.-[Record...
...Royce was unable to prepare an abstract of his lecture in time for publication in today's issue, and we are therefore obliged to defer our report until tomorrow's issue...
...Pupil Anthony Gawdy" on the subject of whether it would be cheaper to have a dressing gown made at Cambridge or at home; and the pedagogue quite agrees with her ladyship in her letter where she states : "Whether I think it were not amiss if you willed him to defer yet making up of it till his coming home, which may happily save yet which ye Taylor here made a reckoning to have had for his share...
...present on our first page a communication from the Chairman of the Faculty Committee on Athletics which we commend to the calm consideration of the university. We defer all criticism of our own until our next issue. We would say that the eleven is still in readiness to play the schedule games provided only permission is obtained...
...train on the team. They are the ones who have enthusiasm enough to support the eleven and as they do the work they should have the honor. Such an eleven might not contain the best material in college but it would make the best representative team. Do not defer picking out an eleven to wait for better men, but form one, subiect to change, from the material that offers, and if better men desire positions let them earn them by good work and good play...