Word: patients
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduate now to be grateful for the thought and labor, and they have been great, expended on the details of this ticket system, and to be patient with the minor defects to which it or any new scheme is liable on first trial. To Mr. Moore, as its originator and leader, belongs most of the credit. This stride toward greater economy and efficiency in the management of athletics shows that he is eager to relieve them of the old criticism of extravagance. We wish him success in his endeavors toward this end, that, as a result, Harvard's athletic equipment...
...something there; always attending strictly to business. But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours. The people of New England are by nature patient and forbearing, but there are some things which they will not stand. Every year they kill a lot of poets for writing about "Beautiful Spring". I like to hear rain on a tin roof. So I covered part of my roof with tin, with an eye to that luxury. Well...
When this campaign began, we were about to take the lead among nations as a people who could practice that Christian peace which men of all nations preach. Must the patient work of years go for naught...
...human race is old and changes slowly, but we must not despair, for in a relative world one can not attain an absolute goal. We should be patient and do what we can to bring it about that more people can with reasonable hope aspire to a condition of greater happiness. It is to this aim that modern politics gives at least lip-homage...
...patient statistician has gone over the records of Harvard law school, making a similar division. He finds that in the last five classes, among those who are also graduates of the college, eighty-six had come from private schools and 133 from the public schools. Presumably this represents the contrasting school groups which figured in the earlier test. At all events, what is the conclusion from these figures? It appears that one boy in every six of the private school obtained an honor degree in the law school, whereas only one in thirteen of those who had prepared...