Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when that gentleman gave his lectures on Protection; and it is to be presumed that the lectures on free trade will be equally interesting, both from the ability of the lecturer and from the nature of the subject. The faculty, however, we understand, are not to blame for the delay in bringing Mr. Godkin before us. They have been endeavoring to make the arrangements, but on account of the many engagements of the gentleman in question no date has yet been fixed. We hope that in time these effords will prove successful, and that soon we shall have the pleasure...
...delay in the delivery of the CRIMSON, Saturday morning, was due to the sudden illness of one of our regular paper carriers; and possibly there may be some slight delay this morning, owing to the inexperience of the boys who take the route...
...plan submitted by the Conference Committee has not yet been discussed by the faculty. The reason for the delay, as we learn from a member of the committee, is simply that a favorable opportunity for presenting the plan has not yet offered itself. Before President Eliot went away from Cambridge, the faculty was busy with other matters; after the President's departure, consideration of the plan had necessarily to be postponed. We think this explanation of the delay is a satisfactory one. It is to the interest of all parties to have the plan most carefully considered by the faculty...
...ready, kept an audience of fourteen hundred men waiting for nearly ten minutes. As it was at that time long past the dinner or supper hour of a large majority of this audience, and many of them had come out from Boston to see the games, such a delay was inexcusable. The next meeting will be attended by ladies who, even less than men, will care to remain through a long meeting if delays occur. Nothing breaks up the enjoyment of an entertainment so much as a constant stream of spectators leaving, one party after another, before the affair...
TUG-OF-WAR.As soon as the last wrestling event was over, there was the usual rush which occurs at "first days" of winter meetings to secure good positions near the rope. After room had been made for the contesting teams, a long delay ensued before they put in an appearance. They were: '88 team, E. A. Pease, J. R. Purdon, P. Chase and F. G. Balch (anchor); '87 team, W. S. Allen, J. S. Russell, F. Remington and T. Scott (anchor). Mr. Storrow, '85, manipulated the indicator ball ropes, and Mr. Morrison, '83, the referee started the pull at about half past...