Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...resume their manual employment after leaving it. Among the New England institutions which describes, the Boston Institute of Technology is prominent. He says: "This institution worthily enjoys a high reputation in America. Its graduates enter into the scientific professions, and the engineering, mining and manufacturing industries without difficulty or delay. I have experienced this in the far West, among the miners, on railway works, in machine shops and in the textile manufactories...
...long delay which accompanies the return of the marks at the mid-year examinations furnishes such a fruitful theme for complaint and expostulation that it is but fair to ourselves and to the instructors that we should now say a good word for the instructors who have so early returned the marks on the last examinations. It is, of course, necessary that the marks of seniors should be given in a few days, but the marks of whole sections have in several instances been returned within a week of the examination. It is certainly pleasant to be informed...
Every year trouble has been caused at the beginning of the term in September because students, in certain courses, find it impossible to secure proper text books without considerable delay. This is both annoying and useless. If all the instructors would notify the book-sellers beforehand concerning the probable number of such books required, it would do away with all the annoyance that is now experienced...
...business people and citizens of Cambridge are subject to this inconvenience all the year round, and must feel it considerably. The same is true of the body of students, who, connected with all parts of the country by family ties, are often subjected to great personal inconvenience by the delay in receiving important messages from home and from friends. Now, during the spring time, when ball games and athletic games in which Harvard is interested, are taking place at a distance, the undergraduate population as a whole become interested and anxious that the news of victory or defeat should...
After some delay the ball was again faced and Yale in a few minutes scored a second goal by a shot of twombly. Rueter made an attempt to stop it, but Spencer, of Yale, got his nose in the way so that the ball went through the poles, and Spencer, although saving the day for Yale, had a violent nose-bleed. Harvard made several close shots for goal, and once or twice the Yale men shot dangerously near Harvard's goal; but drake was there and defended his post well, ably seconded by the defence men. Time was called...