Word: persists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale's wit, of which they claim our Wednesday number is the professed exponent. Evidently their disciplined memories do not recall what we declared to be our object at the outset. We said that we should endeavor to furnish pieces of a light and entertaining nature. They persist in looking for 'funny' articles - 'side-splitters' is their other euphonious name for it." The News adds that it is content to let the matter rest where it is, "for to our taste - depraved probably - light sketches are as satisfactory pabulum as warmed-over witty stories; in general literature to us Hawthorne...
...American's benefit, Mr. Wilde's own comment upon the affair : "If you mean those scholars at Boston (laughing heartily), that was a bit of school-boy fun, not meant in any sort of malice." After all this, why should so fair a paper as the American persist in judging us so harshly, when even our own Crimson, ardent admirer and exponent of Mr. Wilde as it is, sees nothing to condemn in the frolic...
Again the fair name of Columbia has been brought into disrepute by the freshness of the theatre-cheering fiend. There is always a certain number of the "great unsalted" in college, who persist in giving the college cheer in a place of public amusement at some time during the year. - [The Columbia Spec...
...weeping shame and should mst certainly be a matter of college discipline. We are greaved and shocked that there are still some men in the University who persist in appearing on the street without lavender-topped gaiters. The college owes...