Word: interrupt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dyke will be keenly felt by the men who had the pleasure last year of hearing their kind words of thoughtful advice. In their place come Rev. E. Winchester Donald from his church in New York and Rev. Washington Gladden who though not a Harvard man, has agreed to interrupt his work in Columbus, Ohio, and to come east to Cambridge to give his time to Harvard. Rev. Lyman Abbott, Rev. C. C. Everett, and Rev. Leighton Parks continue to serve on the Board of Preachers, and Rev. F. G. Peabody has returned to his position of Plummer Professor...
...foot ball squad was obliged to interrupt its regular work yesterday owing to the heavy fall of snow. The men were, instead, put through some dumb-bell exercises and afterward took a short run up to Porter's Station. Men have been put to work on Norton's shovelling and carting off the snow so that the squad can resume its regular work on Monday...
Professor Channing requests all men in History 1 who are late at a lecture to take the vacant seats along the wall so as not to interrupt the lecture...
...them, I should like to remark a little on Examinations as I Have Found Them. There are examinations and examinations. In one kind, everyone in the room, even if he is not writing, has a kind regard for the feelings of his fellow man, and nothing happens to interrupt the thought of the workers; in this kind, it is a man's own fault if he doesn't do himself justice, unless he is abnormally nervous. In the other sort, the kind regard for the f. f. m. is not so apparent. The gentlemen who are present but not writing...
...lecture. It is not only boyish, but inconsiderate and ill-bred to prevent men who have gone to the lecture for the purpose of hearing it from profiting by those last few minutes. But more than this; it is in the highest degree rude and ungentlemanly to interrupt the instructor in any way while he is speaking. This is the A B C of manners and it would seem hardly necessary to call any man's attention to it. It is noticeable that this practice is in great part confined to those large courses which are taken almost exclusively...