Word: waits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...utmost for perfection in rowing. There is not that life and jump throughout the crew which was so noticeable last week. Perkins at No. 5 seems to be responsible for much of this, for he is inclined to rush out on his slide so fast that he has to wait at full reach, thus making a distinct hang. Jennings at No. 4 has lately changed from the starboard to the port side of the boat, but this would hardly account for his lifelessness and evident slowness of movement which breaks up the time of the four bow men. Manning...
...Irrigation to be successful must be by the United States: Sec. Noble's Report, 1890, 641. - (a) It must be on a very large scale: Powell, 48. - (b) Return from the investment, although sure, is very slow at first: Wilson, 410-18. - (c) It has to wait for immigration to fill up the irrigated land: Wilson...
...affairs and this feeling would be quite lost on Soldiers Field. It is a great question in my mind whether or not the new field would be in condition to play on until late in the spring and we might lose much valuable practice if we were obliged to wait for the ground to dry. I hope Holmes Field will not be given up until it is really needed for building purposes...
...wish to add a word to the notice of the Class Day Committee which appears in another column. In past years the work of the committee which at best is bound to be burdensome has been greatly increased through the negligence of some men who wait until the last minute before ordering their gowns. Notice has been given early this year and there is no reason why any senior should delay about being measured...
...before reading a course of lectures, one should wait until he felt that he had mastered the subject in all its details, a sudden dumbness would fall over the professor's chair and the desk of the lyceum. At three score one would still be studying; at three score and ten he would still be meditating on what he had read, and ere he was ready with his inaugural discourse, his own headstone would be reading a pithy lecture on the shortness of life and the length of books. So true do we find it that wisdom is that