Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...active discussion in reference to Harvard's action in withdrawing from the football league has subsided much sooner than we at first supposed it would. Occasionally however, a question arises which brings the matter into prominence again. Of late, for example, we have heard some men ask, "But what will happen to Harvard if Yale does not favor a dual league? Will she not be entirely cut off from football contest?" The questions are pertinent ones, since it is altogether likely that is just the attitude Yale will take. They imply, however, a mis-conception of Harvard's attitude...
...Brazil has been gradually educated up to a republican form of government, for the monarchy was so limited as to be little less than a republic. The change has met with approval everywhere. There has been almost no flurry in Brazilian goods. Lastly, the republic was inevitable, and the sooner it came the better. The debate for the negative was opened by C. T. R. Bates, '92. He said that the efficiency of any form of government depended on the adaptability of the people to it. The Brazilians are not yet fitted for a republic. The leaders in the revolution...
...this early season of the year we are crowded, overwhelmed with examinations and special written work. No sooner is the forensic brief handed in than there comes a thesis due in Philosophy so and so, and an hour examination in almost every course; in short we are surfeited with work, and so unable to do anything satisfactorily. Of course we cannot object to forensics since they are regularly counted as part of our college work, but a word may be said in reference to theses and hour examinations. Conceive them as best one may, the latter are certainly no more...
...articles than most of the numbers this term, though they tend as frequently towards literary subjects. The graduate article is a timely contribution by Professor F. W. Taussig on "Political Economy and Business," since, as the author writes, "nearly every undergraduate takes a course in Political Economy sooner or later in his college career," it will aid many students in their choice of electives to be informed of the real relation of this study to after life. Professor Taussig shows that it "is concerned little, if at all, with the individual and with the causes of his success or failure...
...hoped that the schedule for the class base-ball league may be arranged as soon as possible after the recess. The games played between the class, nines are always important in developing material for the 'varsity team, and the sooner they are started the better it will be for both class and college base-ball interests...