Word: waite
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...come in slowly until over fifty thousand dollars have been raised. In obtaining this amount no canvass whatever has been made, and all subscriptions have been entirely voluntary. Although this sum is not nearly as large as could be wished, the committee has decided that it is inadvisable to wait longer. The Corporation has promised to give a site somewhere in the Yard, and work on the building will probably be started this summer, in which case it will be completed some time next year...
...says that the "waiters cannot, on account of their position, act independently." Some of this year's board most ready to advocate change and most openly "unsubservient" have been waiters. There has never been any strong feeling of common interest or any solid organization of the men who wait at the Foxcroft Club and there never will be unless it is produced artificially by such senseless discrimination as your correspondent advises...
...altered standards of criticism and aesthetic principles. The author expresses his attitude toward literary criticism as follows: "No one can be more keenly aware than I how parlous a task it is to attempt systematic criticism of the present or near past in literature; but if we are to wait until the world has made up its mind about what it is reading today, it will then be reading something else, and our criticism will always lag superfluous in the development of taste; it will be useful to students, but caviar to the public. It is not, then, worth while...
...tombs, outside the citadel, whose massive proportions rouse the wonder of the modern traveller as to what manner of men these later kings of Mycenae may have been, and recounted the final fate of the citadel. Mideia and Argos, the two other ancient citadels in the Argive plain, still wait for the spade of some enterprising excavator...
...team needs recruiting this year, particularly in the high jump, weights and hurdles, all men who have not yet come out, and who think they might by any possibility do well in the events named, are especially urged not to wait for spring training but to come out for fall practice. Competition in the fall games is the best of experience, and the new men who come out and learn from now are the ones who will be doing the best work when it is time to pick the team...