Word: waits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Friday also will be spent in Baltimore, and on Saturday, April 19, the trip will be wound up with a game with Johns Hopkins. The team will then return to New York and disband. All men are requested to be prompt at the square today, as the cars cannot wait after 2.30. Men who have one-thirties should not cut, but should get excused early...
...Harvard Union as boarding places for students calls for a word of explanation. The almost universal consensus of hygienic opinion today is against eating houses that provide for their patrons no attractive rooms for pleasant social intercourse before and after the meals. "To chat and smile and wait awhile" instead of rushing in and out is now a rule of health for all self-respecting persons so widely recognized that no restaurant or dining room is considered well regulated that is not immediately connected with a pleasant social room...
...While perhaps not explicitly, it was, in general, the idea of its builders that, in this sanctuary of brown oak and leathern upholstery, one undergraduate stranger might accost another and spend that enjoyable hour of chat of two travellers thrown together by the fortunes of the road during the wait for a train on a remote station platform. To a limited extent (a very limited extent) the Union has fulfilled this purpose. But bricks and mortar will not shut out the prevailing community atmosphere from a small precinct sacred to free-and-easy democracy, and, rightly or wrongly, Cambridge...
...hotels there. The lunchcon will be free to those who are members of the Hall, but a charge of 25 cents will be made to all others. Everyone wishing the luncheon should sign the bluebook at the desk in order to guard against delay. Otherwise, he will have to wait while it is being prepared...
Collectors have been appointed in the various dormitories to receive articles donated. As it may be impossible, in some cases, for the collectors to see all the men assigned to them, no one should wait to be asked for his donation but should leave it with the collector in his building. Let everyone ransack his closet and wardrobe and make the response to this call exceed all previous records...