Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...matches in Section I shall all be played off by Saturday at the latest, but sooner if possible. The matches in Section II shall be played by Thursday night and the couples winning first and second place in this section shall at once start in to play with one another their matches in the final round. In the final round each couple shall play every other couple for best two out of three. The report of each match shall be sent in as soon as it is played...
...defeat of Saturday affords little ground for discouragement to those interested in Harvard's athletic welfare. The winning spirit was shown and if it is kept up, as there is every reason to expect that it will be, it is sure to bring its reward sooner or later. Those who are inclined fallaciously to assume a connection between this and other defeats, and to look gloomily on the future,- if there are any such-are as unworthy of being Harvard men as they are devoid of every essential quality of sportsmen...
...present state of affairs cannot be mended. It must give place to a new order. Either there must come a religion such as the prophets never dreamed of, or rivers of blood must flow-the result of the competition which is grinding and crushing men to death. Sooner or later they who stand for a nobler social order will meet the existing order of things in clearly defined conflict...
...possible that students may be allowed to use the apparatus sooner than that, but the work will not be completed until then...
Signatures to the petition for improvements at the post office have come in so rapidly that it will be forwarded to Washington sooner than was at first anticipated...