Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent action of the Yale graduate advisory committee, which has some control over her athletics, in regard to Harvard's delay in answering the challenge of the boat club, has caused much amusement and some indignation at Harvard. The fact is that this was simply the result of an unavoidable and unintentional delay in holding meetings of the Harvard advisory committee. There has been and is now no intention whatever to decline the challenge, and a formal answer will be sent as soon as several preliminary questions are settled between the committees of the two colleges, the most notable...
...rail at, stood up and cried out against the managers of our cew. They wanted an answer then and there, and would have it; but when they were reminded that last year our challenge was not finally accepted until long after this time of the year, and that the delay was necessary and unavoidable, they have changed their tactics. Now their advisory committee have decided that Harvard be courteously requested to send a formal answer before the 18th of January. The HERALD hopes that the answer will be sent, and that Yale will be gratified before the time mentioned. Yale...
...Clipper's judgment on the recent freshman game is of interest: "The game was announced for 2 o'clock, but did not commence until 2.40. There was no occasion for this unreasonable delay, and surely it should not have been allowed when darkness sets in at so early an hour. The Harvard men were heavier and stronger than their opponents, but showed a lamentable weakness of head or management, failing to play well together or support one another effectively. Individually they played very well, but there was much inexperience and ignorance of the rules of the game apparent. The ball...
...ways of a college catalogue, and particularly of a Harvard catalogue, are dark and mysterious. In the arts of delay Penelope herself is outdone by one of these. Perhaps, indeed, a hint is taken from this Homeric legend, and the compositor employs his nights in distributing the type that his days are occupied in setting up. However, repeated delays bring lots of free advertising, and make the final enjoyment all the sweeter, in addition to furnishing a splendid school of patience to innumerable amateur Jobs...
...Flannery, secretary of the National Lacrosse Association, explains that the delay in forwarding the Oelrichs cup to the Harvard Lacrosse Club was simply owing to its being necessary to repair a damage to the cup which happened to it while it was on exhibition. The $300 bonds for its safe-keeping which the winning club is required by the rules to give were not asked from Harvard in advance, and it was not because they were not completed that the cup was not forwarded sooner...