Word: desist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...efficiency of Bolshevik methods is badly shaken by this incident, we nevertheless still wish to be convented if possible and we are pleased by the announcement, that in spite of the unknown Bolshevik's veiled insinuation as to the bourgeois character of the Pudding, the club will not desist from its determination to present "Crowns and Clowns" for our edification...
...increase of such practice might with reason, lead to only one thing, the closing of the Farnsworth Room. The many may have to suffer for the crimes of the few. Let us hope that those who are thus abusing the privileges of the room will desist, and those who are glad to use the room legitimately will help bring the offenders to light...
...been irrevocably decided upon, we join in carrying it through, although, as unlikely as it may sound, should this country in the heat of battle so far fall from the standard set for it by President Wilson as to continue fighting needlessly from hatred or sheer unwillingness to desist, or as to enter upon schemes of conquest, then the spirit behind the Harvard Union for American Neutrality may once more rise in protest. Until then, silentia nobiscum. HALLOWELL DAVIS '18. Chairman of the Harvard Union for American Neutrality...
After the game the members of the victorious Junior class celebrated their victory with a snake dance, while the disheartened Seniors set up wails of "Bright College Years." In a speech to the frenzied throng before the Locker Building, Captain Hopkins of the Seniors, requested the cheering cohorts to desist, reminding them that the Junior team was their guest...