Word: persistence
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next day only ten may be on hand. This is more dispiriting to a captain and a coacher than actual misplay when the men are out, for poor material is one step better than no material at all. It is marvellous with what equanimity a freshman team will persist in its childishness when all the football men in college are talking about it and frowning...
When Captain King proposed another person he would not mention as a substitute any of the three from whom he had originally agreed to choose, and for this reason also, Captain Frothingham claimed a right to persist in refusing to grant a change. It is hard to understand at any rate on what ground Princeton felt justified in trying to dictate, particularly when these dictations were contrary to all previous agreements. Harvard would have arbitrated, the question on the field, but nothing but downright submission would satisfy Captain King. Rather than disappoint the thousands who had gathered, Harvard made this...
...president of the Dining Association in reply to the editorial in yesterday's CRIMSON. Apparently the disturbances, which have become so frequent of late, will be stopped, even if radical measures must be adopted. If the men refuse to look at the matter in the right light and persist in this deplorable custom of hissing and stamping, there is but one course of action - that is to close the gallery to visitors. It does not reflect much credit on the better side of a man's nature, if, after making a reasonable appeal to him not to abuse a privilege...
...simply believes that, in the heat of enthusiasm, Yale was indiscreet in attempting to narrow her athletics down to a college basis; and this feeling is apparently strong even at Yale. With college sentiment expressed so strongly against the measure, it would seem dictatorial, at the least, to persist uncompromisingly in a plan so weakly backed...
...what reason seemed forcible enough to make the athletic committee willing to bear the harsh criticism from graduates all over the country which this action will be sure to call out. A college race on the water is no longer merely a struggle between undergraduates, but since our opponents persist in learning how to row from an experienced graduate, we must do our best to meet them on equal terms, and until we do, the Harvard crew can never win. Our graduates have recognized this fact, and have done their best to make it possible for Harvard to meet Yale...