Word: patient
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hemenway Gymnasium for any kind of organized sport. Basketball deserves better support than it now receives, but until the candidates can be better accommodated the game is not very likely to flourish. When the building has been thoroughly renovated, conditions will be somewhat better; but we await in patient hope the time when some loyal graduate will present us with a new gymnasium, or at least put the present one into such shape that we shall not be obliged to receive visiting teams in a building of which we are thoroughly ashamed...
...Whereas, Death hath struck from us a man whose efficiency as a teaching scholar we valued supremely, whose erudition we knew to be extraordinary, yet whose personal kindness and "patient gentility" in his dealings with us we loved as qualities worth emulating, in our dealings with each other...
...generous subscription was received from an undergraduate, of $550. This made the total amount subscribed, with interest on the first subscription, $1556.37. The amount necessary to endow the bed is $1500. The amount above the necessary amount for the endowment of the bed will, no doubt provide a patient with some comforts, as comforts are reckoned in that desolate region...
...whom a poem might occur, as did the 'Arrow and the Song,' while he stood before the fire waiting for his children to go to church with him; and he was equally able to spend patient years in hearing and weighing 'slowly and with decorum,' as he says, the criticism of other and younger Italian scholars on his version of Dante. He was abstemious, yet wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite...
...taken forty years of unceasing fighting, of patient waiting, of striving to mould public opinion, without which we cannot get anywhere, or, if we do, find ourselves stuck, side-tracked and helpless before we know it. It is going to take us twenty years more to get where we cannot slide back. Every winter the forces of selfish greed that care nothing for the neighbor, nothing for the state, and in their utter short-sightedness and folly cannot grasp the meaning of the President's constant warning that "we go up or down together," can see only their own immediate...