Word: promptings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such reasoning dominate us, however, then we shall wallow in the pool or stagnation. I know of one very small matter which I feel needs prompt and serious attention. The idea seems trifling because it can be summed up in one word-blackboards. I ruin my eyesight trying to decipher diagrams in Harvard 6. I lose thirty minutes in copying hundreds of figures on paper in my accounting class that meets in upper Massachusetts. I fall to get assignments and notices because at times it is impos- sible to distinguish between the board and the chalk. On occasions I have...
...Turning down the grab for extra pay', came the prompt reply; he was referring to a resolution demanding six months extra pay for discharged soldiers, defeated chiefly because Roosevelt himself echoed the spirit of the hour by declaring, 'We came here to put something in the Government, not to take something away from it'. All-American and all for America; non-sectional, non-political; and, when it came to something for itself, unselfish too. Truly, some convention...
...Ones to teach them. It is easy to believe that the maintainance of discipline in that school, was easy, as such young men would want to get the worth of their money, and if they though any of the Wise Ones was not giving it, his dismissal would be prompt...
...Leacock. The reading will be primarily for Freshmen, whether members of the Union or not, but all members of the Union may attend the reading after the Freshmen have been seated. The doors will be closed and locked sharply at 9 o'clock, so that men should be prompt in arriving...
...that they are back grey felt hats and all, what next? Would it be too much to suggest that they include a few concerts in Cambridge on their season's program? Last year students had an opportunity to hear them sing once in the Union. It they were prompt enough in securing tickets they could have attended the concert in Symphony Hall...