Word: patients
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spirit of prejudice which characterizes all such arguments by epithet that the problem will be settled. The hope of the country lies in holding up the hands of the labor conservatives, not necessarily by servile acquiescence in their views, but at least by a patient and sympathetic co-operation through which alone a satisfactory compromise can in the end be effected. If we are agreed on principle, we lose that gain which is half the battle by throwing over as worthless the propositions of any party to the problem. D. T. EATON...
...ruinous telephone tie-up which began yesterday morning is, of course, that the strike must be ended, quickly, and at almost any cost. The fault of the situation seems to lie for the most part in the endless "red tape" and departmental ritual of the Post Office Department. The patient and fairly moderate demands of the operators for an inquiry on the part of some thoroughly impartial tribunal were repeatedly held up, and delayed, and referred on. Mr. Burleson has admitted that there is justice in their demands, but does not seem to like their plea for complete impartiality...
...failed. He was first and always our friend; kind, sympathetic, tolerant, never the teacher on a pedestal but always the helpful advisor. Mingling as one of us he pointed the way by his wider culture and greater experience to better effort and broader ideas. We knew him as infinitely patient in the classroom and in the little study in Gray's Hall, where he cheerfully devoted himself to the troubles we laid before him. He served Harvard with rare fidelity and devotion; it is a lifetime of generous service that the University has lost by his death...
...sick-list" were delighted to receive as gifts from Robert W. Chambers, a number of good books, and a quantity of candy, which was secured only after special permission of the Committee on Food Administration. Mr. Chambers' son, R. H. Chambers '21, is a patient at Stillman. Since September 20, 112 men have been received, over ninety of whom have been discharged...
...ability and kindness in every day's journey you make. He once fell off a cliff,--perhaps I told you about it, and was very badly hurt,--and had to stay out of school for a year with a bad foot, and I think that accident made him very patient and very kind and thoughtful of other people. He was really held in affectionate regard by more older people than any boy of his age I know, and of course I swore by him, and he by me. He was closer to me than anybody else, and I loved...