Word: delay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...umpires shall have full power in case of intentional delay by any nine to declare the game forfeited to the opposing nine...
Every effort will be made to have this year's Portfolio appear in good season before Class Day. Any delay that has been occasioned in years past has been due to the tardiness of a few seniors in sitting for their pictures...
...tardiness of a few must not delay the whole work. Yet the book will be made as complete as possible, and the absence of any senior's picture will be due to his own negligence. The loss of the senior negatives in the recent fire at Pach's studio in New York has naturally caused some delay. But to have the senior pictures appear in alphabetical order, as is desired by the editor of this year's Portfolio, it is absolutely necessary for every man to sit this week. No Portfolio has ever been published in which the pictures were...
...ring in an alarm. As it happened the fire was a small one, and was quickly put out by the Department, with no loss but the furniture of the room in which the fire started. If the conflagration had been of a more serious nature, and the same delay had occurred, there would have been little chance of saving the building by the time the Fire Department reached the scene...
Members of the senior class are urged to have their measurements taken for caps and gowns with as little delay as possible. Though a number of men have already been measured, there are still a great many who have not done so. It will save the committee great inconvenience if men will attend to this matter at once...