Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long oppressed our boating interests. Nothing is so annoying to the financial managers as to have a large number of subscriptions, upon which they had relied for the payment of debts, left unpaid at the close of the year. Let every man who has not yet paid come forward and meet his subscription immediately...
...books, marks an extension of the advantages of this practical and useful institution. Students who have taken German and French courses know the disadvantages and delays under which they have labored before they could really begin their work. It is proposed now to collect the orders at once and forward to the foreign publishers, and thus do away with the uncertainties and high prices attendant on purchases from American and especially Cambridge booksellers. In order to realize the full benefits of this scheme, the orders should be as large as possible. Let every student, therefore, who contemplates taking a course...
...college looks forward to another championship victory in the game against Brown this afternoon. This expectation is but natural, in view of the score made in the two previous games against this college, and when it is remembered that the Dartmouth nine, which was so easily defeated by our team, found no difficulty in winning the game at Hanover yesterday. Yet, in spite of the strong probabilities of success, all over confidence must be suppressed, for, of all games, base-ball is one the most uncertain, as has been shown only too often by the unexpected victories of a weak...
...attempt is made to satisfy, as far as possible, the demands of the students. It is quite true, however, that the clamorers after courses in Stenography, Journalism, and Common Law have still to wait another year at least, contenting themselves with the advances that have been made and looking forward to other and greater ones to come...
...Yale has made, not the classics less important, but other studies more important. In the appointment of a Latin orator, Yale boldly avows her intentions not to give up studies which have been of inestimable value to generations of students, just as surely as in each of her many forward steps she shows the spirit of true progress...