Word: persistancy
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opinion. To call a game "wretched" and "one of the worst games," obviously in itself is a very poor argument. It certainly will require something more than such extreme assertions to convince the ordinary undergraduate that base-ball is "one of the worst of games," and we still persist in believing that President Eliot is at least not averse to persuading or trying to persuade undergraduates of the reasonableness of his position; that he wishes if possible to have their cooperation in effecting the numerous reforms in athletic sports which he so long has been planning...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-The air is filled with denunciations of our faculty. Indignation meetings have been proposed, and dynamite will soon be resorted to. If, in spite of these warnings, the faculty will persist in their ruinous career, a calamity must inevitably follow. But let us consider the matter in a slightly less nihilistic way. What justification have the faculty for their actions? In a conference held in New York, a number of professors, representing all the Eastern colleges of any importance, decided that the professional spirit had entered to a too great extent into almost all our college athletics...
...negligence of some men in handing in blue books for their examinations is annoying both to themselves and to their instructors. In large sections the seats are arranged alphabetically, in order that the places may be found more easily. This, however, cannot be done if the students persist in neglecting to hand in their books, as the instructor is unable to arrange the seats as he would like or else must go to the trouble of writing out the names upon slips of paper and putting these upon the desks. We all know how disagreeable it is to come into...
...several instructors are accustomed to keep their sections beyond the last morning and afternoon hour, it again becomes necessary for us to ask that the college bell may be rung at these hours, namely, at one o'clock and at four o'clock. As long as our instructors will persist, intentionally or not, in keeping their men over the hour, so long will there be a just claim for this demand, for often the instructor, becoming interested in his work, forgets how rapidly the time flies and does not dismiss the section until his attention is called to the time...
...would not allow any temporary inconveniences to stand as obstacles in the path of improvement. Their unexpected defeat seemed to thoroughly disconcert them and a corresponding depression has followed their former confidence. No better lesson could be taught the freshmen than the one they received at Andover unless they persist in taking it the wrong way. The eleven is supposed to be only in partial trim during these preparatory games, so success or failure are one and the same so long as a steady improvement goes on. But this improvement does not seem to be going on as it should...