Word: waits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enjoyment to their less fortunate neighbors who are still compelled to plod the tiresome road of the "grind." Again, the man who surrounds himself with more reserved books than he can use at once, that forsooth, when he wishes to study them he may not be obliged to wait, is doing a positive injustice to his fellow-students. Thoughtlessness has been made to serve as the mask for a multitude of sins in the past, but we now intend to give the true name to such actions, viz., inexcusable selfishness. He who collects a stack of books...
...Church, Roxbury, addressed the meeting in a few earnest words of exhortation for the purification of our souls. He showed the necessity of cultivating restraint against the many temptations which are attendant upon a college life; at the same time urging us to live an active life, not to wait for some better opportunity to do good, but to adjust ourselves to the environments in which God has placed us. The cultivation of our souls lies as much in doing good to others as in attempting to avert uncleanliness from ourselves...
...cage for the University of Pennsylvania base ball team which was to have been completed during the holidays, was found at the last minute to come under the law which forbids the erection of wooden structures within the city limits, and it is, therefore, necessary to wait until a permit to build can be secured from the Department of Public Safety. No difficulty is expected in this respect, as there are no building near at hand, and the structure itself is not an extensive...
...Saturday evening in order to fulfil choir duties rejoined the party just before it left New York. One of the officers of the Glee Club who left the train at Bound Brook to send a telegram, found on his return that the train had departed. He was compelled to wait for the next train...
...exercise, we should like to call the attention of the gymnasium authorities to the fact that last year there was great complaint at the wretched bathing facilities offered. The shower bath could not accommodate over half the men who wish to use it. The only resource left was to wait patiently until some one had finished with a bath tub, and by seizing it immediately anticipate half a dozen other competitors. As probably more men will use the gymnasium this year than ever before, steps should be taken at once to give no such cause for grumbling as was apparent...