Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...catalogue nor the official list of examinations has yet appeared, although it is much later than the usual time for their publication. It seems to us that there can be no reason why the delay should be so much greater this year than in the past. Every one looks forward with especial interest to the appearance of the examination list, as all are naturally anxious to learn in what order the examinations are to be held. We hope that the attention of the proper authorities will be given to the matter and that the delay will be made as short...
...Dwight who have already given a reception to the students of the scientific department, give another reception on Wednesday evening of this week to the senior class. These receptions are in accordance with a long standing custom of President Dwight's predecessors but perhaps it is more looked forward to now than ever, as it is the principle means of bringing the students to a closer intimacy with the president, since he has given up the idea of meeting them in the class-room, in order to devote himself more completely to the requirements of the university at large. Dwight...
...full between the games of 1886 and 1887. We have leisure to look back on the past and forward to the future. We have come to a crisis. It is time to meet it, if we are to keep up the character of our colleges in the view of parents and the community generally, and to make them places of high education where cultivated tastes and refined manners are acquired. I think the colleges on the Eastern seaboard should come to an understanding with each other. It is their duty at present not to cast reflections on each other...
...respective teams, we should expect even more willingness in aid of such a perpetual emblem. Then too, no other sport has so many advantages as tennis. The hundreds of enthusiasts in the sport should make the collection of the sum required an easy matter. Friends of tennis then, come forward and give to the college a tennis trophy which shall be a credit to the players as a body and to the delightful game...
...Hunnewell gain a little ground, but soon the ball goes back ten yards on downs. Perry makes a long run without gaining anything. Slocum loses ground and Yale gets the ball. Yale's kick is stopped and it is Harvard's ball. Back ten yards. Piper runs ten yards forward, and the next time the ball is put in play it goes over the line. Harding hit the goal post, the ball bounding back and Crehore carried it to within three yards of Yale's line. Slocum runs twenty yards toward his own goal and loses the ball. Morrison kicks...