Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the committee realizing this have pushed the work forward as rapidly as they were able, but still there are many men in the lower classes and others rooming outside of the yard that have not as yet been reached...
...which we publish today, a mass meeting is proposed as the best way of discovering the sentiment of the students thus solving the difficulty. Before this is done, however, it might be well to await the result of the Harvard Union canvass for presidential preference, which is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible by the officers of the union. Too much dependence, however, must not be placed upon this canvass as the question. "Shall I vote for Cleveland and Hendricks or for Blaine and Logan?" is to many men a very different one from the question, "Shall I march...
...composing Harvard University, only 438 subscribed to the crew's support Blank postal cards were sent to mostly every undergraduate last spring, soliciting subscriptions but two-thirds of these were never returned. One man returned three, without his name upon them, as a joke. If every man would come forward and subscribe, if not $5, at least $2, $1 or even 50 cents, no fault could be found. The subscription table enclosed will afford information as to the number and the distribution of subscriptions, so I will not enroach further upon your space. Permit me through your columns to thank...
...report of the president of the association, Mr. T. Jefferson Coolidge, '84, contains so much information and so many valuable suggestions in regard to the H. A. A., that we print below some extracts from it. "We cannot look forward to continued success in general athletics without a good out-of-door trainer, and it should be the first duty of the executive committee, after their election, to get the best possible man for the place. Such a man can be found near at hand, if the consent of the athletic committee is obtained, inasmuch as the corporation will give...
...unfortunate in many ways that the weather yesterday was not suitable for the parade so long looked forward to by the students. It was, however, more fortunate that the marshal in charge was able to postpone it until a more favorable opportunity. No one would have relished marching in such a rain storm as we had last night, and yet all would have been loath to forego the pleasures anticipated from this great event which comes but once in a lifetime. We can only wait and hope that the weather on Monday evening will be all that could be desired...