Word: wait
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...movement for a new gymnasium is not dead but sleeping, according to the undergraduate committee in charge of it. For a time at least, the University must wait, for while the undergraduates in the classes from 1913 to 1917 inclusive responded generously and raised nearly ten thousand dollars, the graduates did not respond with the enthusiasm hoped for and the movement has come to a stand-still...
...establishment at Columbia of a institution whose usefulness, where it was not taken humorously, was regarded as doubtful. Today thirty-two schools of journalism are copying, with some degree of success, the original Pulitzer idea. For the real measure of the success of these schools we shall have to wait, of course, for the next generation of newspaper workers. But no one, within or without the newspaper office, who takes the newspaper seriously, can escape the hope that the greatest of public functions will be perceptibly improved...
...stay at home to carry on the affairs of the nation, manufactures, and business; but above all, it should be remembered that it is not the duty of everyone to enlist, and Harvard undergraduates should watch coolly and intelligently to see the drift of national affairs. Watch and wait until the actual call comes, is the maxim for all to regard...
...imperative that the sum pledged be paid in immediately, as the Committee wishes to be able to turn over this entire sum to the Graduate Committee this spring. Notices will soon be mailed to all Freshmen who have pledged money, but it is not necessary for them to wait for this before paying...
...close of their college course, many men wait a year before entering a graduate school or a permanent profession. They spend this interval by teaching in some preparatory school or by travelling. If a man should accept a position in the Far East he would not only do the teaching he desired but he would also see that interesting portion of the world. He would return with a far broader mind and much more experience than the average teacher at his age, and he would be more cognizant of the world's affairs than the average globe trotter. This whole...