Word: soon
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...their own prowess, as well as to discharge satisfactorily the executive and financial duties incumbent upon them. To avoid this undesirable result, it has been suggested that the three captains should be elected temporarily, so as to have some one to put the men in training immediately; then, as soon after the Christmas recess as is deemed advisable, let the candidates for the various positions choose, with the advice of the University captains, their own officers. In the case of the captain of the foot-ball team this plan does not apply so well as to the others...
...took our places. I began conversation, and soon found that I had it painfully my own way. I consoled myself, however, with the thought that, by such uninterrupted opportunity of speech as I seemed destined to have during the evening, I should soon, by this practice, acquire that refined and intelligent use of the mother-tongue which, according to the most recent utterances of the Faculty, is the chief object of education. But I soon began to fear that my partner's emotions had struck her dumb, for in vain I completely exhausted the standing army of society topics...
...promptly forwarded to Mr. John Langdon Sibley, No. 9 Phillips Place, Cambridge, accompanied by answers to the questions to be found in the Triennial Catalogue, and if obituaries have been published, to send the newspapers containing them. It is also suggested to class secretaries to forward their reports as soon as published...
...without the drawbacks usually attending privileges when at first granted, will be demonstrated. At any rate, the system should have a fair trial, and too frequent changes in the methods of instruction, with a policy so constantly vacillating that no plan of study can be carried out, must very soon necessitate a return to the prescribed system...
...would enjoy an occasional evening at a professor's house. To all such students our instructors have it in their power to do great good. We hope that the example set by several professors this year will be widely imitated in the future, and that the time may soon come when the Faculty will feel that their duties to their classes are not limited by the threshold of the recitation-room...