Word: faste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trust that Dr. Hart's absence from his classes will not be a long-continued one. History 13, under his management, has been fast becoming, so to speak, one of the prescribed courses of the elective system. The students recognise it as one of the most valuable courses offered by the college, and comparatively few men in each class pass through college without electing it. This is not only an indication of the importance of the subject which the course treats of, but it is also a testimonial to the merits of the instructor. Dr. Hart's absence, therefore, will...
...Fast day comes this year on April 2nd, and as Easter Sunday comes the week following, students will be enabled to be at home during the Easter vacations...
...Harvard boy, and he will not submit to changes unless they are gradual. To reform the manners of the students we must reform the manners of the overseers. Another line of criticism among undergraduates has been about the choice of studies as being novel and as representing a too fast movement. I want to point out the fact that Harvard College has been too conservative and slow. Years ago it was pointed out that Harvard College must be changed from a school of the eighteenth century to a university of the nineteenth century. It is nearly twenty years since...
...tried to get up from my chair, I could not. I could not move,-not even an eyelid. My muscles, tense with the excitement of the thrilling narrative I had just read, would not respond to my will. A stronger power than my own seemed to hold them fast, and they remained as rigid as if they had been turned to stone. I suppose I was in some sort of a trance; for while I was confined as securely by my inert body as if I were in a close cage, my mind was as active as ever...
Candidates for the nine run slowly a few laps on the track, and then run two laps fast as if running the bases...