Word: persist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good voices were asked to try for the 'varsity glee club. Either from an inherent modesty or from pure laziness and selfishness, but very few freshmen paid any attention to the the appeal. Now a freshman banjo club is in progress of formation and the members of '92 still persist in refusing to bestir themselves. Class feeling and class pride, in so far as to equal if not excel the record of preceding classes, whether in athletics, literary work or musical or social organizations, seems to find little nourishment among the members of the freshman class. Despite the efforts made...
...cage at handball and sliding bases; also in battery work. The prospects are not very encouraging. Captain Henshaw will do all in his power to make a winning team out of the material that he has, but he is hampered by the regulations against professionals, which the faculty persist in enforcing. If our team of this year could be allowed to practice with professional teams we would at least stand on an even footing with Yale, but without this practice, which the Yale team has, we are handicapped from the start. The freshman class has done almost nothing...
...Resolved, that we, the members of the senior class, respectfully urge the faculty to persist no longer in their refusal to allow our base-ball nine to practice with professional teams while the nines of the other colleges are permitted to enjoy this advantage...
Gentle reader, do not understand that we would discourage cleanliness, far from it. We simply wish to warn these bath-room monopolists of the wrath to come, if they persist in their greedy ways. However, we have not the heart to deprive them altogether of a pleasure apparently so much sought by them. We would suggest that they petition for the use of the tubs all night; and then they may sit and soak in peace, undisturbed by the maledictions of the men waiting without...
...strange that after the repeated censure of the Boston critics, Mr. Gericke should persist in presenting programmes made up as was the one given in Sanders Theatre last evening. While the aim of the symphony concerts is to give the best music, there are few minds, even in Cambridge, capable of thoroughly appreciating three such works as Schubert's Unfinished and Beethoven's Heroic Symphonies, and St. Saen's concerto, when heard one directly after the other. Whatever reasons might be urged in defence of this course in Boston, where the concerts may be considered as an educational series...