Word: deference
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Extensive changes in the locker room during the holidays will defer the opening of the Randolph Gymnasium for use by the University until Monday, January 7. The old lockers with which the building was originally equipped have been entirely replaced by lockers from the Hemenway Gymnasium. The difference in the style of the lockers gives an additional 100 lockers for use, so that the total number in the Gymnasium will be slightly over...
...names, addresses, and special aptitudes or interests of applicants will eventually be sent to all members of the Club. Owing to the urgent demands for service connected with the war, and the multiplicity of notices and appeals having to do with that service, it has been thought best to defer for the present any active solicitation in the interest of other forms of civic and social work. In the meantime the canvass of social and charitable organizations will be completed. All inquiries regarding existing openings for voluntary work should be addressed to the Secretary of the Committee on Civic...
...courses in a variety of subjects; accounting, banking, finance, transportation, commerce and trade, business organization and management, manufactures, advertising and salesmanship, and the like. At the end of the second year the degree of Bachelor of Science will be awarded so that those who do not care to defer their entrance into a practical business career may start in at the age of the ordinary college graduate. It is expected, however, that a large proportion of the students will continue for a third year, at the end of which the Master's degree will be conferred...
...History 1 in the University should know that if Gallipoli and Saloniki are unknown to students it is not the fault of the course. It is true that the earnest student is so swamped with work in learning what men have written in the past that he must largely defer until graduation the pleasanter task of reading what they are writing now. Even so, he grows while in college; and the senior usually is not such an unintellectual beast as the undergraduate is painted...
...military measure, to hinder the effective use the South was making of black labor in auxiliary departments of warfare. Seward opposed the proclamation, saying that the world would regard it as the last cry of a defeated nation. Lincoln accepted the criticism in part, deciding to defer the issuing of the problamation until after a victory. His opportunity came at Antietam, and in September, 1862, the proclamation was issued...