Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cuts taken last year. This seems quite a useless thing. If the records show that a man has been absent from too many of his recitations, the faculty have the power to demand better attendance of him at the time; and why they do not do this, but wait until many months have passed, is a matter hard to understand. If their aim is to exact a more faithful attendance, surely it is easy to notify a man of the fact before he has completed the year in what is deemed an objectionable manner. Visting the sins of last year...
...instructors number thirty-two in all, of which nine have been at times connected with Harvard either in the capacity of student or instructor. Copies of the announcement or any information can be obtained from the secretary Mr. Lucien A. Wait, Ithaca, N. Y., to whom applications for instruction must be made...
...attempt were made to equip grounds near the college this fall, we should find the club saddled with expenditures which would render heavy assessments necessary, and it seems far better to wait till spring before making any such attempt when the club will be more firmly established and possessed of more experience. As to the remarks made in your editorial on the inadvisability of shooting over the 800, 900 and 1000 yards ranges, it should be stated that no thoughts of such long-range practice have been entertained by any one in any way connected with the club...
...time to him ; and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Sanders opened for the negative. A secret ballot was then taken on the merits of the debate by the disputants. The debate being then thrown open to the house, a most interesting discussion followed, in which Messrs. Hoar, Frost, McInnis, Wait and others joined. Mr. Sanders closed for the negative and Mr. Sewall for the affirmative. A vote was taken upon the merits of the debate as a whole, which resulted in favor of the negative by 104 to 21. The secretary then announced the results of the secret ballots, which were...
...first indications of winter appear in our old friends the board-walks which are already lying in wait for the coming snow and ice. It is a very common saying "that time brings many changes," but in our case it seems to have forborne to make any, or at least only one, change for the better. To be sure the man-holes in front of Hollis and Stoughton have at last been grated over by our thoughtful and ever-indulgent faculty, but the entries of Matthews still mourn for a light, and the gymnasium entrance yawns a black and dreadful...