Word: patients
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...years' competition for the Boylston Prizes was restricted to members of the Junior and Senior classes. This was a much-needed change, for in lessening the number of competitors it gave a better chance to those who came late upon the list of obtaining a patient and attentive hearing. Two further reforms are needed...
...weight, its purity, its value; the manner was most simple, yet most impressive, breathing throughout an intense but chastened emotion arising from a deliberate and an unshaken conviction; the thoughts were distilled with the deepest care from the products of large experience of men, great natural acuteness, patient reflection, and uncompromising self-criticism. Liberal to all mankind. Dr. Walker had far too strong a conviction for God's personal presence, a reverence for the Bible, a love for the Author of Christianity and his doctrine, to give any quarter to scepticism in theory or viciousness in practice. His argument forced...
...practice in the analysis of liquids and solids. Mineralogy is also a laboratory course of blow-pipe analysis; it requires a good memory and some experience in drawing crystals and geometrical figures. In it a good memory is sure of success. Quantitative analysis is for the steady hand and patient brain. It teaches and requires delicacy of manipulation; is concerned with the measuring by weight of the compounds studied. It requires and trains the hand and eye to great nicety, and is of some service to the physician, as well as both of the two laboratory courses above noticed. Lastly...
...MEMBER of '76, after a patient, if not fruitful, investigation into "the Vibrations of Sounding Bodies," announces that Mr. Stewart has made an unpardonable mistake in his Elementary Physics, p. 141, last sentence. Such errors are sure to mislead the unsuspecting...
...earnest life in patient labor spent...