Search Details

Word: promptly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...chorus showed defective training, but as the play progressed, a reasonable degree of smoothness was attained. The last act was old and tedious. Towards its close the audience caught sight of a small fire in the curtain, and the great danger of a panic was averted only by the prompt action of the stage management...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Theatres. | 2/25/1890 | See Source »

...WOOD, Sec.DELTA UPSILON.- Meeting tonight, Monday, at 8 o'clock sharp. Be prompt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 2/17/1890 | See Source »

...great advantages and enabling them to settle upon their college work, with the aid of a competent advisor, sooner than they could otherwise have done. In the past it has been found that the examinations for admission, coming in the week college opened, have interfered very much with the prompt beginning of college work, and to obviate this, the examinations have been set for the last of the week before that on which college is to open, thus giving the instructors two or three days to prepare for a prompt beginning of work the day college opens. The report closes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Report of the Dean of Harvard College. | 2/8/1890 | See Source »

Seminar in Greek 10 this evening at 7 prompt. 15 Grays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 2/3/1890 | See Source »

...this capacity he continued to serve the college until December, 1889, when he resigned the professorship; so that he has been in active service over thirty-six years. He was a prompt and constant attendant at lectures and always interested in his work. Of late years he has done only half-work and is not well-known to many of the undergraduates. But his influence on the graduates has been remarkably strong, many of them remembering him with the greatest affection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Francis Bowen. | 1/22/1890 | See Source »

Previous | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | Next