Word: forethoughtful
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...editor of a Dublin newspaper has framed and hung in his office a unique memorial of a reporter's forethought. It is a telegram which he received a few weeks ago, and it reads: "Please keep column open for dastardly outrage to be committed at 11 o'clock tonight...
...were provident enough to give their orders in plenty of time this delay would be of little account; but as, we regret to say, they are not, some means of making the Society more reliable should be devised. More care on the part of the Society, and more forethought on the part of the members, will obviate the trouble. The contracts with the affiliated tradesmen should also be put on a better footing. Perhaps this will be the natural result of a year's experience, for both parties will understand the value of the contract better than was possible last...
...action of the faculty in reference to the nine, while it certainly shows great consideration and forethought for the athletic interests of the college, cannot but bring home forcibly to every one the misfortune of the present regulation by which the nine is forbidden to play professional teams on the home grounds. By this regulation the men are really compelled to go to New York in order to find a good team with which to obtain practice. If the authorities will repeal this decree professional clubs can be invited, and will gladly accept, to play the 'Varsity in Cambridge...
Candidates for second year honors universally express satisfaction at the examinations recently held. The examinations in every instance have shown forethought and consideration, and what was unusually admirable was the apparent care that had been taken to equalize any advantages that might have arisen from having pursued certain courses...
...wretched condition of the walks between the chapel and Memorial, and between the library and chapel. Even now the mud is several inches deep in some places, and what must we expect when the regular spring thaws come? It seems to us that a great lack of forethought was shown by the authorities when they expended so much in placing stone and brick walks all over the yard, and left these two most important thoroughfares without even the protection of that cheap, and much abused, "plank walk...