Word: hastening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college press. The Advocate, in its last number, felt the need of some extra accommodations in view of the large classes of late years, and we join with it most heartily in urging such an outlay on the part of the college. The present rumor should only serve to hasten some official action in the same line and to deliver future class-men from the tyranny of boarding houses and outside establishments. With the present limited accommodations the freshman who succeeds in getting rooms in the yard may well deem himself fortunate; and the marvellous facility with which...
...operative Society, as all such institutions, has been formed with the best possible motives, the good of a large number and the intentional injury of no one. All belligerent onslaughts of those who find their pleasant monopolies tampered with cannot fail to be perfectly inane, and can only hasten their long-deferred deserts...
...instructors who use the Gymnasium, but one or two take their meals at Memorial; the rest have no need to hasten to their dinner. That the present rule was made with especial reference to the dinner hour at Memorial, and not for the accommodation of these instructors, is conclusively proved by the promptness with which the time for exercise was extended to six o'clock, when the dinner hour was changed to six; and by the fact that the instructors did not apply for permission to exercise after 5.30 until that hour had already been decided upon as the time...
...there is not a single desk, and we have to take notes as well as we can with our hands full of books. If the authorities have knowingly sanctioned such an arrangement as this, they deserve unqualified censure; and if they have done it through oversight, they should hasten to correct the error. For if now, when we can have the windows open, the air is extremely unpleasant, if not injurious, how shall we endure it when the winter forces us to keep the windows closed...