Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Horween has proved himself a capable coach and a wise and patient leader. He is a man for whom his players will work willingly and without the feeling that they are being driven to death for the sole purpose of producing a string of victories. In the four years that he has been at the reins in Harvard football his teams and their records have shown consistent improvement and this improvement has had its reflection in the ever growing optimism and good will of the student body...
Next June the last group of such undergraduates join the ranks and already the ruffied relations are smoothing. Mr. Bingham has all along showed his interest in stilling the seething waters and something tangible in the nature of renewed relations is promised for the near future. His patient efforts should bear early fruition with the thinning in the undergraduate population of those who were directly influenced by the incident. BY TIME...
...little later, perfectly composed, the tough old patient said to Dr. de Gennes as though speaking of the weather, "I am suffering atrociously in my intestines." Pain quickened into torture. "Let me take off your outer clothing!" pleaded Sister Theoneste. But the Tiger was obstinate. For years he has gone to bed fully dressed, merely kicking off his slippers and loosening his collar. "Because how do I know at what moment I may get up and write?" The iron will had begun to melt when at last he let the Sister put him into night clothes...
...cure the people he strokes with his "pencil"-a childishly simple high-frequency coil operated by an automobile battery. If they go away and claim to be cured of everything from appendicitis to housemaid's knee that is their business. The Pencil Man will not take from any patient more than three Austrian shillings (42?). He seldom pencils a man or woman for more than 30 seconds, treats hundreds of poor "patients" free. In 40 years of eccentric hocus-pocus he has never broken two rules: i) The groups he pencils must always be of assorted sexes, and always...
...Farrell, Harvard track coach and football trainer who underwent an operation for appendicitis yesterday morning at the Brooks Hospital in Brookline, was reported last night as resting comfortably. Dr. T. K. Richards '15, in whose care Farrell was placed, expressed himself as pleased with his patient's condition...