Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...History Department will also take possession of quarters in the same building, which will enjoy the same advantages as those of the Classical Department. The providing for such facilities for students is a great advance over the present insufficient accommodations for departmental libraries existing in Sever. The sooner money is available, through the generosity of benefactors of the college, for the fitting up of similar headquarters for each department, the nearer the approach will be toward the satisfaction of professors' and students' needs...
...impression that they are being systematically bled to support the institutions both of the 'varsity and of their own class. Consequently they assign all sorts of excuses as reasons for not contributing more generously. It is scarcely necessary to say that this impression is an erroneous one and the sooner they relinquish it the better. It is a duty they owe the college and their class to subscribe liberally to the maintenance of their college teams...
Although'94 played with a great deal of snap and energy, they showed some very glaring faults which sooner or later they have got to overcome. Their tackling shows an improvement over their practice work, but even if a man tackled low he allowed his man to gain a yard or two by crawling along on the ground. The blocking in the rush line is lamentably weak, the opponents coming through with scarcely an effort, at the same time making enormous holes in the line. A great improvement in this respect must be made, for a team with a weak...
...team has some bad defects and is especially weak behind the line. The quarter-backs have yet to learn to give good signals and to bunch their men. The half-backs must wake up, start sooner and run faster. The full back is one of the weakest positions on the team and unless some good kicker appears on Norton's soon the sophomores will...
...system of study at all the American colleges will be revised soon. Columbia hopes to accomplish the desired end in a similar manner. To allow seniors to take professional courses, which also count for the degree of A. B., as Columbia has just done, is a step which sooner or later will be taken at Harvard in addition to the others already proposed...