Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Errors," by J. G. Forbes 1901, and "My Complication with the Major" by P. G. Carleton '99. This last is the only undergraduate contribution in the number which deals with college or even with American life. It seems rather a pity that the contributors to the Monthly should persist in drawing their inspirations from foreign countries...
...feature of the success which is, above all other things, a cause for gratification. The success was won by hearty, unhesitating cooperation in the general plan by every person who had any connection with the play. There was none of the half-hearted, calculating support which outsiders persist in believing is the only kind given at Harvard. Individuals worked, not to make themselves prominent but to make the play successful...
Third.- To persist in this policy as long as need be until, with the changing attitude of the public in regard to the education of women, Harvard should be willing to acceed to your request...
...hour instead of at the beginning, or he may stop his lecture and ask embarrassing questions. In short, Harvard College may be turned into a reform school for inculcating civility and decency of manner. This, of course, will never be done and if the students persist in this course of dishonor probably the faculty will make no regulation to stop it. Yet what sort of business is this for college men? How much strength of character, how much manliness, does such action show? None. Is it up to the standard of American college life? Certainly not. The students themselves, those...
...hold of an athletic interest in a manner which gives promise of good results. In football they have been a disapointment, but in the matter of rowing they seem to have grasped the situation, and there is a right spirit among them. If they retain their good resolutions and persist in their efforts through the preliminary work, the outlook for a good crew next spring will be excellent. If on the contrary, the men lose their earnestness and drop out because they do not find much fun in it, a gradual decadence of spirit will set in which will...