Word: persisting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thoroughly amusing to see, for this year the Society provides an "all star" cast. No part is played poorly, and practically all are in the hands of very experienced players. Doubtless, in the succeeding performances, the clearness of enunciation which marked the latter parts of Friday's play, will persist from start to finish. The players should remember that the audience at the start knows neither the archaic speech nor the diction of the actors, and needs to hear every syllable. The action may be rushed, but, above all at the opening, not the speech...
...better location could be desired for a great institution like the Institute, and its buildings as planned would have made a noble frame for that side of the Embankment. But the trustees of Technology hesitated, knowing the determination that had been expressed by a few persons in Cambridge to persist until they succeeded in taxing Harvard and other institutions. The trustees were further unofficially advised by the Harvard Corporation that in its opinion the removing of more real estate from taxation might endanger the untaxed institutions, including Harvard College, which already existed in Cambridge...
...which teach their own use. It is a pity that so few college men realize that the training which a university affords is not the accumulation of a mass of miscellaneous knowledge and erudition, but a preparation for the outside world. And yet so many men persist in disregarding the one requisite which is the most beneficial in every-day life--the ability to talk. Think of a profession, a trade, an occupation in which the power to think on one's feet and the ability to express oneself are not of the utmost advantage. But the power of addressing...
...astronomical instruments, their cost and equipment. The exploration and exploitation of Darkest Harvard for the benefit of readers of the Illustrated is without a doubt a worthy mission for a college periodical. But the mission must fail if the explorers, unlike Mr. Andrew Lang, who wrote about Oxford, persist in dullness of substance...