Word: patients
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:-After long and patient walling on the part of the college, the Index is at last out, but as we look over its pages and scent the mass of dry facts laid before us, we are disposed to ask with Arthur in the play, "cui Bono? It is not that the Index is not useful and even indispensable as far as it goes, but that it does not go far enough. A stranger who had been looking over the publication of a like nature which other colleges have, and marked their wealth of illustration and the variety...
...college, in the events of '69 and '64, shows that under this seeming apathy, so prevalent to-day among our students, there is an enthusiastic spirit, which needs only to be thoroughly aroused to make itself felt in a decided degree. As the fury of a patient man is something to be dreaded, so the enthusiasm bom from Harvard indifference generally accomplishes something worthy of our college...
...during the spring time, when ball games and athletic games in which Harvard is interested, are taking place at a distance, the undergraduate population as a whole become interested and anxious that the news of victory or defeat should be made known as soon as possible. Often the patient student waits and waits until late in the evening for returns to be posted which ought to be received soon after the dinner hour is over. Looking at the hours regulating the office, we see that the room is closed from 12.30 to 1.30 and from 6 to 7, and that...
...follows : First prizes to John Parker Holmes, '84, and Samuel Atkins Eliot, '84 ; second prizes to Henry Elbert Barnes, 84', Bartow Bee Ramage, '84, and Irvah Lester Winter, '85. The award of prizes, as usual, seemed to be a surprize to everybody and hardly recompensed the audience for their patient waiting...
Among the features of the German universities is the class of unfortunates who come up every year regularly to try the entrance examinations, fail with equal regularity, and settle down again to "pots and pipes" with a patient resignation that is at once ludicrous and melancholy. Mos of these men have lost the flush of youth, the beards of some are streaked with gray, yet as they have long since parted with their early ambition they are perfectly contented with their...