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Word: awaited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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This afternoon the university nine will play its first championship game with Yale at New Haven. It is with considerable anxiety that the college will await the result; the game is, in a way, the turning point in the championship race. It Harvard loses, her chances for final success will be very materially lessened, although not destroyed. If, on the other hand, a victory is obtained, Harvard will be in the lead for the pennant. We feel that the hopes for fulfilling the latter condition are by no means inconsiderable. In the first part of the spring there seemed little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/25/1889 | See Source »

...will await with the greatest interest the further results of the work of Mr. Vrooman's committee, and we feel confident that these results will, as he says, show that Harvard has been much misrepresented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/6/1889 | See Source »

...relations between big and little shops demand study. Many societies have been formed whose members are pledged never to buy in large shops. The error here should be explained. The cause of longer hours in small shops the movement to buy only before six o'clock, these, too, await investigation. More than all, the problem of the surplus unskilled sewing women calls out for remedies. Facts are wanted to show that the idea, that cheap living reduces wages, is a fiction. Are employers forced to take advantage of the over-supply of labor, and would wages fall if attempts were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Conference Meeting. | 12/19/1888 | See Source »

...will state once and for all that we will play Yale this year in Cambridge on Thanksgiving day, and then and there only. We hope you will see the justice of this demand, and that Yale's honor will not permit her to do otherwise than accept. We await an early reply. We remain very respectfully yours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW HAVEN, Nov. 2, 1887. | 11/17/1888 | See Source »

...varsity eleven. To those who have participated in table matches, an agitation of the subject cannot but be welcome. The rest of the students must learn by experience the pleasures and advantages of these table matches. There is certainly no need that any should draw back and await the action of others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/12/1888 | See Source »

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