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Word: promptly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Democrats in college are requested to be present tonight in Holden Chapel at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of organizing a University Club. Be sure and come. Be prompt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Democrats. | 5/18/1892 | See Source »

Fourth class. - When the first impression is vivid and the power of revival is prompt. This makes a good memory and is the object we are striving for. Attention governs all and it is defective attention that causes defective memories. Out of ten hours of ordinary study one really concentrates one's mind but half the time. Attention is naturally weak; strengthen it, is the best advice one can give. No power is more easily destroyed, no power may be more highly developed than that of attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Loisette's Lecture. | 4/19/1892 | See Source »

...hands full of other things, and ought to be freed from the worry of seeing that everyone is measured for his gown on time. Then too a consideration of the press of work which the eleventh hour men put upon the tailors ought to be sufficient to prompt these members of the class to a habit of greater punctuality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1892 | See Source »

...Williams further says that he has received a letter from Mr. Ross stating that he had done everything in his power to get in subscriptions from undergraduates, and that he advised the publishing of the notice printed in another column, asking for a prompt payment of all such unpaid subscriptions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reading Room Fund. | 12/10/1891 | See Source »

...surplus turned over to me by your football team you are entitled to five hundred dollars, so that it will be necessary for you to raise at least five hundred dollars between now and the time your crew wishes to leave for New London. You should at once take prompt action to ascertain whether your class takes interest enough in the matter to send your crew to New London...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS. Subscriptions for next year may be left with Leavitt and Peirce. | 6/6/1891 | See Source »

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