Word: patient
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...them, and to the long and patient work of Mr. Crocker, as well as the assistance of Mr. Bancroft, the class owe much. Especially to the coach, who took the arduous position when the interest of the class itself was wanting, are they indebted for sending to meet Cornell a crew that pulled a stern race most pluckily, and in a form that only could be acquired by constant practice and the best of training...
...Somehow things were so managed that it was all paying out with nothing coming in. Expensive boats were bought, used for one race, and then laid on the rests to rot. The University Boat-House was kept, at the expense of all, for the use of a few patient fellows, who were trained and scolded and worked, and then beaten. To afford cheap rowing for all another boat-house was built, and another lot of boats bought (or rather taken, for I believe they are not yet paid for), and the club system inaugurated. The club members...
...case they must expect little sympathy. They went to New Haven confident themselves of making at least a close game of it, and carrying with them the unbounded confidence of the College in their complete success. Had they been beaten in a close and exciting game, we could be patient and call it hard luck; but they have not even this poor satisfaction to offer. Theirs was not a defeat, it was a rout, which can only be wiped out by a corresponding victory next time. But what were the causes of this Waterloo? Dieu sait. For the numberless fielding...
...behavior of some of the students at the Post-Office on Sundays has lately given rise to considerable annoyance; not patient enough to take their place in line and ask in their turn for their letters, they must needs elbow their way up to the front and get some friend to ask for them. The line is thus often kept motionless for two or three minutes, while one man is asking for the host of friends standing around. The matter seems scarcely worth calling attention to, since it is presumably the result of thoughtlessness, and not of a determination...
...have toiled with patient care...