Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hoped before this for a final settlement of the phase of the question now uppermost, but it is believed that a general understanding between all parties concerned is necessary to a satisfactory solution. May we not have long to wait! Everyone is anxious to know where affairs are ultimately to stand; but will agree heartily to the proposed conference, if it is to be a means to a speedy, permanent and more satisfactory...
...club-house important additions to the equipment of boats and oars have been arranged for, and the big room overlooking the river is to be fitted up, and fires kept in the big fireplaces at either end so that the members may have a comfortable place to wait before going out on the river...
...reach, is offered by newspaper writing or management. If the college graduate realizes that he has thus far only 'learned to study'; if he combines a desire to learn with a capacity for receiving strong impressions and a real sympathy with the people; if he is willing to wait a long while, and perhaps indefinitely, for wealth, I should advise him to seek political and other useful activity in newspaper work...
...must not, then be too serve with Lampy's habitual failings. If jokes are to appear once in so often, one cannot wait for them to "just grow" like Topsy; they must be manufactured. If there is little to suggest them, they must be forced. If there is dearth of local picturesqueness, they must go afield to life in general. Moreover, it is only fair to the present number to admit that there are some good touches among the wealth of the commonplace. "Phrases from Novels" (p. 200), the dernier cri of the Freshman's welcome home...
...glad to see that the English Department is not resting upon its laurels in the matter of providing in Cambridge plays of real merit. It is some years since Forbes Robertson played "Hamlet" in Sanders Theatre; but there is no reason why we should wait several more years for a similar performance. Miss Maude Adams's first performance on a Harvard stage should be the fore-runner of the appearance of many other actors and actresses who are willing to appear before Harvard audiences in Cambridge, rather than have a few undergraduates see them each night in Boston. Our audiences...