Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The authorities of the library have always, and especially during the past year, been courteous and prompt in adopting suggestions of the students in the interest of improvement. I should like to propose one more improvement, and that is, that instead of selecting new books without reference to the students, the authorities allow each man in the university to suggest one book, or series of book, to be purchased when next any books are added to the library. As the students are most interested in the selection of their reading material there can be no objection...
...York, was attended by representatives from Harvard, Trinity of Hartford, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia. A series of intercollegiate matches were arranged, and the next two seasons saw the teams at work. Last season, however, from several causes, there were but three Richmonds in the field, and unless prompt measures are taken during the winter by the friends of the game to keep alive the interest, which has always been a matter of hard work for the graduates of past years to keep up, it would seem that they have had but labor in vain. This is more...
...proofs be satisfactory or not. If they are, word should be immediately sent to the studio; if not, it is hoped that they will lose no time in making other sittings. Appointments may be made either through the undersigned or at the studio. The committee cannot too strongly urge prompt action on the part of all, so that the work may be finished within the specified time...
Pierian Sodality. - Rehearsal for concert tonight, instead of Wednesday. Please be prompt...
...account which we reproduce in another column. What morals the English papers have been drawing from these proceedings, which, we believe, have become customary from long usage and sanctioned by venerable tradition, we are uninformed. To Americans certainly this report will naturally suggest unamiable reflections and perhaps unavoidably will prompt odious comparisons. Beside such a scene as this, hazing, with all its attendant horrors, dwindles into insignificance, We venture to assert that nowhere in America has such a brutal and disgraceful performance ever taken place at any of our colleges. The tu-quoque argument will not relieve Americans from...