Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announced that men now in Officers' Training Camps may exercise their option between remaining in the camps and receiving an honorable discharge from the army. It is expected that men in the navy will also be released in large numbers. In view of these conditions, Harvard University has made prompt provision for the enrolment of students. This is possible from the fact that in addition to the military training, the ordinary academic organization and instruction have been kept in operation throughout...
...Prompt action is necessary in order that the additional candidates may have an opportunity to receive credit for their academic work by taking the special final examinations. The College will appreciate immediate results from the basement of University Hall...
Yesterday afternoon at about 1 o'clock the store house of the Colonial Club on Quincy street was almost completely burned down by a fire. The flames, however, were prevented from spreading to the club itself by the prompt arrival of the Cambridge fire department. The cause of the fire is unknown...
Love of blood does not prompt such feelings. It is not a question of wreaking stern vengeance on an exasperating foe. But love of country, love of freedom from Teutonism, and love of the right dictates these sentiments. They are not felt by the cold-hearted and stoical alone; the timid share them too. They are the convictions of the thinking part of a nation in a horrible...
...transportation overseas. Asa Don Dickinson is in charge of one of these shipping stations, while William H. Brett, of Cleveland, is in charge of the other. Representing the American Library Association in France is Dr. M. L. Raney, librarian of Johns Hopkins University, to oversee the handling and prompt distribution of the books when they arrive...