Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the altered conditions of military service consequent upon the entrance of the United States in the war, this Faculty believes that the best conservation of the resources of the country for the prosecution of the war demands that students, save in exceptional cases, should persist in the faithful discharge of their college duties until they reach the age of twenty years and nine months, when they may enter on the regular training required for a commission...
...whimsical humor to sharpen his judgement, he invariably carried the interest of his students with him where-ever he chose to turn the shafts of his penetrating criticism. Ridicule was his favorite weapon for the banal and he had no mercy for the pious shams, the stuffed dummies that persist in all literature. Always he was sane, sound and exacting. Thousands of young Americans have left his classroom bearing the stamp of his taste and the stores of his learning...
Individuals will assemble in Persist Smith Hall for voluntary preliminary instruction in sighting drills for the rifle from 10 o'clock until 12 o'clock, and from 1.30 o'clock until 3 o'clock, under the supervision of Sergeants Bryan and Gavigan, U.S.A...
Another society of a somewhat different sort is described in an article by F. T. Spaulding '17 on the notorious "Med. Fac.", traces of whose buffoonery and barrel-stave humor, unfortunately still persist...
Unless continually subjected to the standard opinions of the students, courses are apt to persist in some sort of error for years. With a view toward increasing the efficiency of a course and the benefits to be derived from it, it is suggested that cards be distributed among the members either at mid-years or finals. On these the student might write any suggestions which he considered of value and it is to be expected that this would assist in solving some of the problems confronting the professor. Such a plan has been tried in several instances and is particularly...