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Although House teams are open to the tutors, the number of men able to take advantage of them is definitely limited, both by time and by natural abilities. Admittedly the best arena for the desired meeting of tutor and student is the House dining-room, but the stubborn persistence of the tutors' table in most of the Houses prevents success here to a great degree...
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...London, called upon to say "I do" at his own wedding, stubborn Leslie Kitching balked, stubbornly shook his head at all the urging of the parson, the bride, the bride's mother, the best man and the bridesmaids...
While declining gate receipts justify many slashes in the H.A.A. budget, there can be no excuse for negligent medical service at the Dillon Field House. Not until the day when sports are abolished at Harvard, can one cent be subtracted from the medical appropriation of the most stubborn budget if this should endanger the health of any student. Granted, it is enticing to hack here but the difficulties of coaching and travelling cuts are not accompanied by the threat of life and death...
...thirds in "Queen Anne's Bounty," an organization set up in that good lady's reign (1702-14) to support rural clergy. Of the thousands of husbandmen who in the past four years have rebelled against tithe-paying (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933), none have been more stubborn than the men of Kent. Last February a London Express man found scores of them locked & barred in their homes, ready to repel bailiffs...