Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pauw University in Greencastle, Ind., is to have eight more buildings-a law college, a medical college, a theological college, an observatory, two dormitories, and other structures, to be erected without delay...
...course in favor of others, until he learns to his dismay that he has been marked lower than the figures he coveted, when it will be too late for him to recover his lost ground. In some courses the work of correcting papers is very great and some delay cannot be helped, but it should be the design of instructors in such courses to have this delay as short as possible. In other courses there is no excuse why speedy returns should not be the rule...
...students, and wish to suggest a remedy. At the very time when there are most men in the gymnasium taking their regular exercise the weights can not be approached, as a usual thing, because some crew or nine is at work there. Consequently, all the other men have to delay their exercise an unnecessary length of time to get a chance at the weights or else forego the use of them entirely. The trouble is largely caused by the baseball men. The crews succeed each other in regular order and so only occupy a limited number of weights...
...well-known fact that many good men do not come out at all as long as they see former members of the various teams trying for a place and so when a class, that has been prominent in athletics, goes out there are vacancies which cause much delay, owing to the inexperience of the men; this would be greatly lessened if the captains had the men of the auxiliary teams to pick from and then men would have had the valuable experience acquired in regular matches or races as the case may be, and this experience is too valuable...
...done by eighty-six has been confined almost entirely to the men at present on the board, giving no chance for the selection of additional editors to fill up the quota from that class. As for eighty-seven, so little work has been produced by them that great delay will be caused in finding freshman editors unless they show decided improvement in the near future...