Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this method of registration which is at once so simple for the student and, it is presumed, satisfactory for the University office, is attested by the comparative paucity of errors. It is not at all unusual in other institutions, whose systems are more onerous, for a person to wait as long to rectify a mistake as to make one. Here a student may be as much subject to changes of mind but he can console himself with the thought that he has a reasonable period of grace in which to discover whether or not he will like a certain course...
President Coolidge. When Arthur Brisbane came away from the White House luncheon table last week (see above), many an ear was enormously curious to hear what he had heard. Newsgatherers could not wait to read about it next day in the Brisbanal syndicate column. Had the President chosen this supereminent publicist, from whose pursed lips come editorial pearls, to confide an exegesis of the historic "do not choose" statement...
...disciplinary action ranging all the way from admonition to probation and expulsion. This is not, and never has been, a true picture of the situation at Harvard, nor at any other college worthy of the name. We are rather busy men, and now and then you may have to wait your turn in the outer office, but please remember that we are always glad to see you and that it is our aim to keep the 'college office' a friendly place where you will be welcome at all times, whether it be on a matter of business...
...Boston Globe. This surmise was refuted by Clinton Gilbert, able Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post, who pointed out that as seats become vacant only in 1929 and in 1931, President Coolidge would either have to run for office while in the White House, or else wait for two years. Said Mr. Gilbert: "John Quincy Adams, by retiring from the Presidency to become a member of the House of Representatives, established a precedent which the public has always wished to see followed. So whenever a President retires at a suitable age there is always talk of his entering...
...Pride of Detroit as she coasted to earth at Stamboul, Turkey. Said the military commandant at the field: "In the name of Turkish aviators of the future I greet and welcome you . . . ." Pleased with this courtesy the aviators prepared to hasten on toward Aleppo. Official Turkey ordered them to wait while the red tape was unwound from an official permit to fly over Turkish territory...