Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Every senior who expects to receive honorable mention in any study or studies, is requested to leave, without delay, at the office, a written statement of the courses in which he believes he has earned this distinction...
...found the three new professorships in the proposed School of Philosophy. It is believed that if the graduates of the college succeed in raising $60,000 to endow one chair, to be known as the "alumni chair," the money to endow the other two chairs will be given without delay. A committee of the alumni have prepared a circular setting forth the generally prosperous condition of the college and requesting gifts for the "alumni chair...
...they make no effort whatever to exhibit their faith in the institution by pecuniary aid. There is reason to believe that this impression once removed by the endowment of one chair by the alumni, the funds to endow the other two chairs ($120,000 additional) will be forthcoming without delay...
...make a liberal allowance for every possible delay, it still seems as though the corporation were greatly at fault for not furnishing the window staples promised so long ago. It is true that there has been recently no appalling calamity or loss of life from fire to arouse the popular feeling in regard to the danger of fire in the college buildings, but it is not necessary for the corporation to wait for some such stimulus to compel them to fulfil their promise. We were told that the staples would be ready soon after the recess, and it would seem...
...crews had made their appearance the draw was opened, and the crews came through in the order of the classes, each crew being cheered by its classmates as it passed the referee's boat. All the preliminary arrangements had been made with care and skill, so that very little delay ensued in getting the boats into their proper positions. In attempting to throw the jerseys aboard the tug boat, '84's coxswain fell out of the shell, but he pluckily held on, and pulled himself aboard, suffering no injury save a thorough wetting...