Word: patient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Success in everything to which he applied himself was his characteristic, and well-merited success, earned by patient and persevering labor. As a student, or as an athlete, this earnestness of purpose showed itself, and the result was always satisfactory. For this reason, we cannot but feel that his loss is a real loss, not only to the present, but to the future. No man in college had a future more promising of good work, and the career cut short so early, would surely have been one the world could ill afford to lose...
...typical Yale graduate is ready and thorough; the Harvard, exact and full; the Amherst, patient and earnest; the Williams, well rounded and well balanced; the Dartmouth, independent; the Middlebury, careful and discrim inanity; and the Michigan, direct and clear. [C. F. Thwing...
...themselves amazingly-"right lucky fellows," as we read in the new translation of the Qur An, for so the learned call the Koran of our ignorance. Yet even here all was not peace and pleasantness, for I heard my name called by a small voice, in a tone of patient, subdued querulousness. Looking hastily round, I with some difficulty recognized, in a green turban and slid gown to match, my old college tutor and professor of Arabic. Poor old Jones had been the best and the most shy of university men. As there was never any undergraduate in his time...
Professor in Chemistry: "Suppose you were called to a patient who had swallowed a heavy dose of oxalic acid, what would you administer?" K-(who is preparing for the ministry, and who only takes chemistry because it is compulsory): "I would administer the Sacrament...
...ought to pull him through on the day. These a long experience shows to be golden rules, but it must not be forgotten that what will suit one man may fail with another. The trainer, therefore, should study his man's constitution as a doctor does that of his patient. Above all things, also, keep him cheerful and confident; the body is always governed by the mind. Make your man think he is sure to win, and he will do so if fast enough. If not, and you have followed the spirit of these simple instructions, you will...