Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tonight occurs one of the few reunions to which all students look forward to with so much pleasure. No urging ought to be necessary to secure a full attendance at the senior class dinner. And yet not half the class has as yet signified its intention of being present. There are, doubtless, many men whose intention it is to be present, but who have neglected to sign the blue book at Leavitt's. Although each man will be welcomed at the Parker House tonight, nevertheless it would make the duties of the committee much easier if they could...
...large empty space behind them. If a double or triple line of benches or chairs fastened firmly together were placed at a convenient distance from the door, the crowd would be stayed. These seats, which would be quickly filled, would make a barrier not easily to be pushed forward. There should be, of course, plenty of chairs along the sides of the Hall for the dancers and their chaperons...
With the end of the football season, Yale naturally looks forward to the spring and weighs the chances for the success of her crew and nine. The crew bids fair to be the equal of last year's eight, and Yale can look forward to the Yale-Harvard and Yale-Pennsylvania races with reasonable hopes of success. In the matter of the nine, the college is somewhat downhearted. Stagg, it is said, has absolutely refused to play next season. But Yale has a way of persuading delinquents in athletic matters which seldom fails of success, and it seems scarcely possible...
...work on Hastings Hall is being carried forward as rapidly as possible and already the building has been finished on the outside to the level of the plates at the eaves. If the weather continues mild, it will be roofed in this fall, and steam heat put in. If this can be done, the work of laying the terra cotta floor arches and other inside work will be carried on all winter. In this case the building will be ready for occupancy next fall, otherwise it will not be ready for another year...
...movement has been set on foot by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to send an American archaeologist to Egypt, and to forward for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts some of the sculptures which are being unearthed...