Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next debate in English 6 will take place March 29; subject, "Resolved, that the bill now pending in Congress to prohibit Chinese immigration should become a law." Affirmative, Messrs. Mayberry, Baird, Lothrop. Negative, Messrs. Wait, Oxnard, Snow...
From '82, Messrs. Babcock, Olmstead, Beale, Burton, W. G. Chase, Wait, Cabot, Fuller, Burt...
...awarded to Crane. Time, two minutes and a half. After three minutes time was called and the men appeared, Atwood evidently acting with more caution. After a few more manoeuvers and several short struggles, Atwood won the second fall. Time five minutes and forty-five seconds. After the usual wait time was called for the third round, and the men entered, both appearing anxious about the decisive struggle, and each determined to win. After a close struggle Crane won the third fall, and consequently the trial bout, in three minutes and twenty-two seconds...
...credit to the audience. . . . The intention of the immature young persons from the Harvard freshman class to disturb the lecture by appearing in the midst of it with their masquerade, were baulked by Mr. Wilde, who had been given an inkling that something was in the wind; therefore he waited until they made their appearance. He was not at all disconcerted by their presence, but was really amused, and in his introduction he turned his quick Irish wit against them, his playful, good-humored treatment of the affair gaining him the good-will of the audience at once...
...19.At a meeting of Harvard Union the following-named officers were elected for the ensuing year : President, W. C. Wait, '82; vice-president, H. Putnam, '83; secretary, E. A. Hibbard, '84; treasurer, E. S. Middleton...