Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tutoring in History, Political Economy and Roman Law. Wm. C. Wait, 28 Holyoke street...
Tutoring in History, Political Economy and Roman Law. Wm. C. Wait, 28 Holyoke street...
...window staples promised so long ago. It is true that there has been recently no appalling calamity or loss of life from fire to arouse the popular feeling in regard to the danger of fire in the college buildings, but it is not necessary for the corporation to wait for some such stimulus to compel them to fulfil their promise. We were told that the staples would be ready soon after the recess, and it would seem as though sufficient time had elapsed for the production of these articles which cannot take either much time or money for their manufacture...
...multitude of tablets commemorate the names of the gallant graduates of Harvard who fell twenty years ago in the civil war. In the same building is a magnificent dining hall, decorated with portraits and busts of eminent Americans, and, as it was near luncheon time, we thought we would wait to see whether the American student played as good a knife and fork as our own Cambridge boys at home; and how the two groups compared as respects their physical development. It is but a tame business for an onlooker to watch a student in his rooms dipping his beak...
Poet - "But, my dear sir, it is now four years since you accepted my epic, and no steps have yet been taken to publish it." Publisher - "Don't be in a hurry, young man. Homer had to wait more than three thousand years before he got into print, and you can hardly claim that your poem is an Illiad." - [Fliegende Blatter...