Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Rapid transit in Boston must have - (a) Capacity for large increase of traffic. - (b) Speed. - (c) Safety. - (d) Sound financial basis...
...beginning of the war we find Japan ready to carry on a rapid campaign. Her men have been drilled in European and American methods. She has a military history that surprises the students who only lately have had access to her literature. The Chinese, on the other hand, have not been looking forward to war. Her people are traders and merchants, not soldiers. There is no system in the army, and the officers are thoroughly corrupt. The greater part of the funds appropriated for modern fortifications and ordnance has gone into the pockets of the mandarins. The outcome was almost...
...time when they need it least, but when they need it most. The neglect to buy a season ticket implies the intention to attend few games, and such intention this year is wholly unpardonable. We hope that the sale of season tickets will be much more rapid than it has hitherto been. The attendance at the games will increase in proportion...
With the steady, rapid growth of the College, and the consequent increase in the business to be transacted in the College offices, the inadequacy of the latter is yearly becoming more painfully evident. The small size of the rooms and their unsatisfactory equipment are far from suggesting the great importance of the work done by the Dean, the Secretary and the Recorder, while ignoring the difficulties which attend the performance of that work. In the case of the Recorder, for instance, it seems very unfair that the necessary annoyances of his position should be aggravated by any lack of facilities...
...literary course will be given by the department of English at Yale next year, entitled "Modern Novels." The course will consist almost entirely of the rapid reading of living authors, with a general discussion of each work. The idea is to take up each week some English, American, French, German or Russian novel, translations of foreign works always being used. Such authors as Thomas Hardy, Weyman, Meredith, Tolstoi, Alphonse Daudet, Heyse, Mrs. Ward, Hall Caine, C. D. Warner and Howells will be among those studied, the recitation hours being given up to a lecture on the book in hand, with...