Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prohibit definitely, with relation to a candidate, until after the opening of College in his Sophomore year, any such action as (1) Giving him to understand, directly or indirectly, that he is under consideration as a member of a club; (2) asking or advising him, directly or indirectly, to "wait" for a certain club, that is, not to be a candidate for any other club; (3) endeavoring to influence his judgment as to the merits of the different clubs; and (4) encouraging him to form a group of his classmates with the intention of waiting for any club...
...Great American University is as mythical as the Great American Novel. The longer we have to wait for it, the less confidently do we expect it. But that is no reason for not making our universities more national than they are now. Princeton is not the only such institution to realize the advantage, if not indeed the necesisty, of enlisting all parts of the country under her banner. New York Evening Post...
...into the paths of the future. When the call came for men to defend this home, the young lions did not fail. 7,523 set behind them their personal desires. They left comforts and opportunities to face the most gigantic war which modern science could produce. They did not wait until convenience allowed them to go. They left the instant necessity called them. Since 1914 Harvard has bid her sons God-speed on this great adventure...
...doubt that the small size of this number is largely due to the same deadly habit of procrastination that impels an undergraduate invariably to hand in a thesis in the last half-hour of the allotted time; according to the recent order of Major Flynn such men, if they wait after next Friday, will merely find themselves debarred from positions as officers or non-coms, when the new companies are organized. Their cases merit no concern...
...Yale men their fortune. We have no excuse to make nor alibis to offer. A season which began favorably with a Princeton victory has taken an unfavorable turn. There is but one answer which our team can make. It will require a great deal of hard work and training. Wait until June first at New Haven, when Harvard fortunes will be redeemed...