Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meet expenses. If the college is unwilling to give the Advocate sufficient financial support, its publication must be stopped. The editors hope that there will be a general response to their appeal for subscriptions. Subscription price for half year, one vol. of ten numbers, $1.25. Copies will be delivered promptly at subscribers' rooms. Subscriptions may be left at Sever's. Postal filled out with name and address, and mailed to the Advocate, will meet with prompt attention...
...them, shows how indifferent to money matters a large portion of our college community is. Moreover, the promise of the management that, in case this necessary money should be raised, the society placed on a firm basis with an assured capital would, in all probability, become permanent, ought to prompt more men to add to the voluntary subscription list, that they may reap the benefits of co-operation in future years. Selfish motives alone ought to be inducement enough to more than make up the small sum now needed, but without which the society cannot hope to continue...
...prayers, to two pounds ten shillings, for absence from town for a month. If a man was absent from recitation, it cost him 1s. 6d.; if he got drunk, the penalty was no greater. Going to meeting before the ringing of the bell was an offence, and the over-prompt student was fined 6d. The penalty for playing cards was 5s. for graduates, 2s. 6d. for undergraduates. And so on down the list...
...approach the old ante bellum figures. We therefore hope soon to see a similar increase at Harvard. One way in which this event can be hastened is by each Southerner now at Harvard preaching the Harvard propaganda in the place where he lives. Love for their Alma Mater should prompt men to do this, for every accession to the number of students brings a corresponding increase to the prosperity of the university...
...idea of leaving in the middle of the hour, or soon after the roll call, to say the least he shows himself off in no very good light. So much for courtesy among the students. On the side of the lecturers, is it not their duty to be prompt in closing their lectures and not to keep their sections three, five or more minutes after the hour. The evil is one that is felt especially in all but the last hours of the morning and afternoon sessions, when the men-or at least most of them-have other lectures immediately...