Word: stuck
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dangers, serious, but still perfectly possible to avert. In these respects, the CRIMSON looks forward with confidence to gradual but steady improvement. Coach Forbes and Captain Cabot entered upon this fall's work with their eyes open to these difficulties. To their credit be it said that they have stuck to their purpose consistently. The men have, as a rule, been kept in good condition, and, in spite of inevitable criticism, their development as a team has not been hurried. The work has, it is true, been only begun, but we expect to see it carried out to a logical...
...Merritt and Co., of Boston, and remained with them until his death. He was apparently in good health up to August, 1896, when, after a prolonged business trip through the West, he became much run down. At first he thought nothing serious was the trouble and with characteristic determination stuck to his work until November. In creasing weakness, however, compelled him to relinquish work and to go to Colorado Springs. For some time he seemed to be gaining satisfactorily, but from about Christmas time he failed rapidly. His wife and three children survive...
...Norman W. Cabot and his four aids, P. S. Dalton, S. L. Fuller, Gerrish Newell and J. L. Knox, who had blue and white toy balloons in their button holes. The first ranks of the class kept time with rattle bones, and most of the men wore colored puppets stuck on their straw hats. Leading the Freshman class came three fellows on small donkeys, hired at the last minute near where the parade formed. Behing them some dozen fellows carried crimson umbrellas, lettered in white to spell "Harvard '99" and "46-96." The Freshmen had the largest representation...
...Harvard speakers were decidedly superior in form, but their strongest point was that they stuck to a single well-defined line of argument, without repetition or confusion...
...finish of the stroke, and this trouble was traced to Lewis at bow. He is probably the strongest man at the quarters, and when he rows his best is very effective, but he has a bad tendency to hang and settle at the finish, a fault that has stuck to him during the three years he has rowed, and which he seems unable to overcome for more than a few strokes at a time...