Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston Elevated Railway will run trains to the new Stadium Station for all football games during the season. For the Washington and Jefferson game tomorrow the new Back Bay tunnel to Park street and the Cambridge tunnel to the Stadium Station will give prompt service from all points in Boston. In addition, extra surface cars will be run from Dudley street to Harvard square and from Central square through Western avenue to North Harvard street, the nearest point to the Stadium for surface cars...
...Harvard's strategy lies in similar prompt recognition of the obligations which the new era of politics and of education are imposing upon all colleges and universities, whether state supported or privately endowed. The undergraduates feel the call, urge action, and in so doing do credit to the valor and hope of youth. Alumni, resident in Massachusetts, no doubt will look with favor on a more aggressive and formal policy than hitherto has governed the institution. This of course can be done solely on the ground of service to be rendered, and without the slightest expectation that the institution ever...
...fact that some of the most creditable work of the foremost scholars of the world is not sufficiently profitable commercially to tempt the regular publisher. A subsidized institution, however, specially organized to deal with books of this character, can do much to advance scholarship by making possible the prompt publication and wide dissemination of the results of scientific research. Such a press can also advance the prestige of the University by issuing over its imprint learned works that may not need special subsides. These books would be accepted, without doubt, by commercial publishers, but they might fail to be connected...
Harvard College has also had innumerable escapes from fire losses, because of the prompt extinguishment of fires started. The commonest cause of fires in the dormitories was the falling of live coals out of the grate piled too high to keep the fire during some long absence of the occupant of the room. Many fires have been started in the College buildings by students' thoughtless practice of throwing matches and the ends of cigars or cigarettes into waste-paper baskets; but these sudden flames are as a rule put out quickly, because the chances are that the fire will start...
...asking for information or statistics on some subject, thereby hoping to pick up some "possibly valuable story" for which they will receive credit. The suggestion from this committee is to have an officer of the paper write for such articles as are desired, in which case they will receive prompt and thorough attention, which is not likely to happen if very indefinite requests for information are received from numerous unknown persons...