Word: waite
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...high schools, such a course is exceedingly disadvantageous. If they attend the ordinary high school of this country, they may get an exceedingly good education, but not one of the Harvard kind. If they are entered in a school which happens to teach the Harvard subjects, they cannot wait until the last year before making up their minds to come here, but must spend their whole course working up the necessary studies...
Unfortunately in some cases the House has been considered a sort of kindergarten to the Senate. Many men have been members of the House just to wait for the time when they should become senators, but most of these have been disappointed. Yet a number of the most eminent men in the history of the country say service in the House, among whom we might mention the four Presidents, Madison, Polk, Garfield, and McKinley...
...have to dress for practice cannot blame them very much for their apparent indifference. The locker rooms are dark, unsanitary and improperly ventilated; the lockers themselves are minute and crowded together without regard to the comfort or health of their users. No wonder candidates for the team prefer to wait for warmer weather when they can use the Locker Building on Soldiers Field, quite palatial in comparison to the Gymnasium...
...University hockey team will play Yale at the St. Nicholas Rink, New York, at 8.15 o'clock this evening. The team will wait over in New York until Monday evening when it will play the final game of the year with Dartmouth. If Harvard wins from Yale tonight, the game with Dartmouth will definitely decide the intercollegiate championship. If Yale wins, there is still a chance of tying for first place by means of a victory over Dartmouth on Monday. The uncertain weather conditions have somewhat retarded the development of the University team this year, although a good start...
Owing to the lack of ice on Saturday, the hockey management was obliged to cancel the game which was to have been played with Cornell. The Cornell team was unable to wait over in hopes of colder weather...