Word: hastening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...source of satisfaction to see that a good deal of interest was manifested last year in the hitherto much neglected study of Elocution. The Faculty should hasten to supply the place of Professor Baxter by some one who will keep alive that interest, as the work in this department is too much for any one man to do alone. We would suggest that Sanders Theatre be used for a recitation-room in this subject during the year, as well as for the rehearsals of the competitors for the Boylston prizes. This would necessitate keeping it heated during the winter...
...Hasten them on, ye favoring gales...
...that, from the splashing of the oars, seemed inexperienced. A few fellows in rowing-clothes were lounging about the floats and gangways, waiting for others to come and help form a crew. Soon the words, "Get ready, fellows!" struck my ear, and I saw a half-dozen stalwart forms hasten up the stairs to the dressing-rooms. In a few minutes they appeared in their rowing-clothes, and took their places beside a ponderous craft, called the "Barge," which, with its iron keel, outriggers, and inside fixtures, looked more like a Rebel war-ram than a practical rowing-boat. "Ready...
...That hasten'st ever swiftly here...
...that we have always room for one more interest to support, be it Rifle Club or Athletic Association. If a shingle be prepared, with a seal bearing the device of a crimson flag floating from the North Pole, we have no fears that members more than enough would hasten to join the H. N. P. D. A., Harvard North Pole Discovery Association. The doubt might be raised, to be sure, whether the ardor of the sledgers would not cool by the time they reached the region of the tenth parallel, but in that case we should still have the shingles...