Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...secretary of the Tennis Association will be at 4, Little's block, on Tuesday and Wednesday, of this week, from 11 A. M., till 12. Thirty courts have been obtained. The association is in need of prompt payment of assessments to mark and roll these courts...
...view of the great success attained by the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa as a literary society, particularly among its graduate members, it is but natural that Yale should wish to imitate this success. Of course there are local causes which prompt the revival of this society at New Haven. Nevertheless the long series of brilliant meetings during commencement week at Harvard of this society, -occasions which have been rendered famous by orations or poems by such men as Emerson, Wendell Phillips, James Russell Lowell, E. C. Stedman, Geo. W. Curtis, Charles Francis Adams and Robert Grant, -cannot...
...have any weight at all, it will be because it voices the sentiment of the college. For this reason, therefore, we urge every man who takes any interest in Harvard athletics to be present and vote for or against the ratification of the petition as his convictions prompt...
...athletics continue in the old ruts. It is very annoying to hear that this or that college faculty have postponed or delayed their decision in the matter. Where so many colleges are concerned it is nothing more than a matter of courtesy for each one to be as prompt as possible, so that others may not be kept in suspense. By the power conferred on them the smaller colleges can make the larger ones wait their pleasure, but it is hardly polite or politic in them to do so. It is not often that the larger colleges are called upon...
...choose no better time than the present to make their annual visits to their supporters. To aid them in their duties we feel sure is the earnest desire of every student of the university. As their labors are at best very oppressive nothing can please them better than the prompt acquiescence in their demands for subscriptions. All those who have already subscribed should pay up, and all those who have not subscribed should seize time while it flies, and before they have recovered from their better feelings put down their names...