Word: stuck
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...student.' Throughout his life he had struggled heroically against the galling restrictions imposed by a physical infirmity, and achieved results which would have been impossible for a spirit less gallant. When the great war came, and it was evident that he could not go to fight he manfully stuck to his post at Harvard, devoting all his energies to maintaining the continuity of instruction, and to keeping alive the undergraduate organizations with which he was most closely identified. This was his contribution to the common cause, and it were difficult to imagine a finer or more useful...
...into a state of coma en repos up north. The monotony was broken by a three-day convoy through the most startlingly beautiful land of all lands--and into a quiet sector. Then came my call to Paris. They had apparently purchased many packages of tea in which commissions stuck for they gave away several at the time. Ed McDougall received one at the same time, and Bill Bingham "went up" to Captain--so wherever Harvard is she marches on. Four days later I was back in a well-remembered pays with a new-to-me Section...
...this was due to the individual performance of one backfield man. We refer to Humphrey. Five or six Eli antagonists were as nothing to this man, and that he will make splendid University material in years to come, provided the trench work is finished, is unquestionable. Likewise Captain Faxon stuck to his post on the line and worked every second of the game. He may feel that he led his men as a captain should have done and that failure was not due to any flaws in his generalship. Yale happened to be the better team two years in succession...
...Harvard's score. Five of these men are all men who in the past have seemed to be working against practical impossibilities, and even as late as their Junior year were showing what one would hardly pick as enough to make them valuable to the team. The sixth stuck at it in the face of numerous accidents. Hard work and faithfulness told, and they not only scored for us this ytar, but they came through with good performances in the face of hard competition. It is unnecessary to mention the names of these men. Two of them won first places...
Captain G. F. Brown, of Yale, jumped into the lead in the half-mile and set the pace throughout., Finishing the first quarter in 57 seconds, he was unable to shake off. F. W. Capper '15, who stuck at his heels until the last stretch. Brown, in the last 100 yards, showed a wonderful burst of speed, beating Capper by 10 yards and cutting the dual record by 3-5 of a second...