Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...constantly growing worse. He repudiated the theory that the world is a wreck and that the utmost the church can do is to rescue a few here and there. The kingdoms of the world are yielding to the advance of Christ. In the industrial field he meets the most stubborn opposition, even here some of the most ominous signs tell of the presence of him who said, "I came not to bring peace on the earth, but a sword." Thursday's lecture was devoted to the discussion of the question whether economic theory can be Christianizad. After reference...
PRINCETON, N. J. The game played this afternoon was called after a stubborn fight, in the second half without either team having scored a point. The game was one of the most stubbornly contested for years. Both teams showed steady and at times brilliant play. The weight of the Princeton men was compensated for by the close team play and steady support of each other shown by the men from New Haven...
...freshman now rejoiceth much. Special regulations were adopted this year to the effect that no foot-ball men should be allowed to spree. The freshmen, by superior coaching, took the first two canes, the light-weight and the middle-weight. The struggle for the heavy-weight cane was a stubborn contest; after working hard for one hour and forty minutes, neither man was able to wrest it from his opponent and the cane was divided, the freshmen thus getting 2 1-2 canes and the sophomores only 1-2 a cane...
...vice-president, F.S.Hicks; treasurer, W. F. Jackson; secretary, M. S. Bevan. The question of the advisability of supporting a crew has been a mooted one in the college ever since the defeats sustained last spring. Strong articles in opposition to boating have appeared in the college press, and a stubborn resistance was anticipated in the meeting by the boating men. The elections were made, however, without opposition, and a motion was carried to sustain a crew. The applications for positions are about thirty in number...
...plainly and publicly pointed out what keen observers have long known, viz., that students and professors look at athletics from totally different standpoints; that these two views are wholly irreconcilable; that between them is a chasm which affords no tenable middle ground; that the students are unwisely stubborn in support of their own ideas; and that this obstinacy will, sooner or later; drive the strong arm of authority to attain, by harsh action, what might have been effected by timely concession and compromise...