Word: wait
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hard to see how a waiting list is to be of any value. If the course is to be carried on in a progressive way, very few men will leave it after once taking it up. A waiting list at the gymnasium is very different from a waiting list at Memorial Hall, for instance. In the latter case if a man is not satisfied with what he gets he has a chance to go else-where, and consequently places are constantly left open for new comers; in the former case there is no other place where anything as good...
...nevertheless take away a great deal of the pleasure and profit of the course. Our attention has been called to the fact that there are men in some of the philosophy and economics courses, where the matter in hand is apt to be abstruse, who repeatedly keep the class waiting while they ask questions about little technicalities which are entirely subordinate. Of course questions are all right in their place, and questions of a general character are certainly in place during a recitation or lecture. But when a man asks about little points which interest him alone, his thirst...
...several new large vessels, and has been with the Bureau of Steam Engineering at Washington. He will have here seven courses under his direct charge, including an entirely new one in mechanical engineering. The following are some of the changes in the staff of instructors: Mr. J. C. Wait has resigned and Mr. D. L. Turner has been appointed to his place, with Mr. Swendsen as assistant. Mr. Turner is a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute of Troy. Mr. W. V. Moses, graduate of University of Michigan, has been appointed instructor in drawing. This is new position this year...
...Holmes Field there is always a tremendous crowding about the gate because ticket purchasers put off buying their tickets till the last minute. This is unpleasant not only for those who purchase tickets at the gate, but also for those who have their tickets bought and who have to wait behind the crowd. All this can be avoided if men will purchase their admission tickets before 12 o'clock Thursday at Leavitt and Peirce...
...those outside the college who read the "Types" will not think that they really do describe typical Harvard men. There are three "College Kodaks." The first and last are poor, while the second is very pretty. "My Wall Paper" is a pleasant story by Knoblauch. "A Long Time to Wait" is one of the best things that Chamberlin has written this year. It is a rather pathetic story and is very well done. "Cutting The Leaves" is a poem without much merit. A pretty couplet is "Uncut Pages, begun and ended with liltings learned from olden time." "Under the Profile...