Word: contend
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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MANY reasons have recently been given for the decline of our interest in rowing, one of which is thought by several boating men to deserve some attention. The cups for which the crews contend in the spring and autumn races are of the most ordinary description; those won in the last club-race being little superior to those offered in scratch-races. It is the opinion of prominent boating men that if finer cups were offered there would be more rivalry among the crews, and a greater desire to row on them. Such a result would, of course, bring many...
...best singers in the Glee Club, and as the later classes have provided but few members, the club is not in as good a condition as it was a year or two ago. The lack of first tenors is the great difficulty which the club has to contend against at present, and it is to be hoped that the desired material may be found in '79 or in the next Freshman class...
...centennial guns will mouth him a fitting welcome, and that too in the State of his nativity; while the bells of Independence Day will laugh in unison at the unapproachable wit and waggery of his "Social Science." At the very outset Mr. Carey like all great men, has to contend with misrepresentation; and we here take occasion to deny positively that Mr. Carey allowed his book to be placed before the world at this time, in order to ruin the sale of Noah Porter's humorous work on Intellectual Science.* Indeed, they are companion volumes, and whoever has read...
...selected the magenta before Harvard, we see no reason why Harvard should change her colors. There may be numerous colleges and schools who have baseball nines or crews that wear magenta trimmings, and have worn them for twenty years; but if, at some future date, they should decide to contend with Harvard, it would be absurd for them to claim a prior right to the magenta. The color of a college is determined when first worn in a race with other colleges. The magenta is now identified with Harvard; it has been worn for over ten years in races with...
...been brought on the ground that the daily religious services were performed by professors in the Theological School. 'It is alleged,' he says, 'that the prayers are made by the professors in Theology, and may pervert the minds of the pupils. Surely no one in New England can contend that so large a family should not have any morning and evening prayers. It is true that the Theological Professors pray; but who else should pray? And, after all, what is the objection to their prayers? It is expressly admitted that the prayers will contain no matter of controversy, nothing...