Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should Not Wait Until Last Moment...
...This is, in brief, the reason why Freshmen are asked to hand in, their choices early in May of each year. The danger always is that they will wait until the last moment before consulting their advisers and the Department representatives appointed for this purpose. This means that instead of a real discussion, they will have only the hastiest and most perfunctory interview which can mean very little more to them than the application of a rubber stamp. It is vitally important to consult the various members of the Faculty who are available as early as possible in order that...
...hour of his greatest need the student turns hopefully, imploringly to Dame Science who is never loath to promise whatever one pray ask. With culinary laboratories where he can eat on the run, with strychnine and other things not to be mentioned to stimulate exhausted brains, she thinks to wait him over the great divide. In vain the student cries that they are not enough! Could be but do without sleep for three weeks, perhaps held make the grade Dame Science empties her pockets all to no avail, for she has not yet compounded tablets or synthetic sleep...
...room window, so that anyone on the same floor of the hotel and of another hotel adjoining might have committed the murder. The clues are spread out before the reader with commendable fairness, but in baffling number. Two plots are so skilfully woven together that one has to wait for the writer to unravel them. Not until two-thirds of the way through the book does the writer find it necessary to conceal from the reader the surmises in the detective's mind. The writing is workman like ; only the proofreading is slipshod...
...recruit undergraduates, but to obtain the finest possible faculty material. The announcement of the illustrious additions to next year's teaching staff bears out the truth of this statement and gives prominence to President Lowell's belief that, if Harvard is to retain its supremacy, it is essential to wait sometimes several years rather than fill the faculty for a generation with good but not exceptional men. The mills of the gods grind slowly and silently, sometimes too silently, for it is seldom that the University at large is aware of the highly important and difficult work performed...