Word: contend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first creditable showing made by the 'varsity eleven this season was in the game with Wesleyan last Saturday. Few, excepting those on the football ground, knew under what adverse circumstances the team was forced to contend. The treatment received by the eleven at the hands of the Wesleyan students was shameful. A detailed account of the game and the incidents attendant upon it will be found in another column...
...Magee, '89, was the last of the principal disputants. Protection, said he, is the rock on which the republicans stand. The best means of securing revenue is by indirect taxation. An equitable reduction in the tariff is what the Republicans contend for. Free wool, with a tax on cloth, would only put money into the pockets of the manufacturers, who would continue to keep up prices. Wages and profit are both higher here than in England, but under free trade both would fall...
Next Monday the annual Intercollegiate tennis tournament takes place at New Haven. Harvard has always sent good men to contend for the championship of the colleges, and will, we think, make as good a fight this fall as in former years. Although the contest takes place in New Haven where our rivals from Yale and Trinity will have the encouragement that suppositories afford, still we have faith in the men the tennis association send out, and hope that the victory of last year may be repeated this fall...
...chief difficulties preparatory schools have to contend with is a lack of a good library. Scholarships, gymnasiums, and laboratories usually spring into existence after the growth of the school sufficiently warrants such innovations, but a library, consisting of something more than lexicons and encyclopedias, rarely finds a space in the ordinary fitting school. The Phillips Exeter Academy, however, has been a commendable exception to this rule, and at present a fairly large collection of books has been amassed, through the efforts of instructors and alumni. Every volume of the lot relates more or less directly to some...
...feel hopeful in regard to the championship. However, there is one thing to be guarded against; it has often been the stumbling-block of Harvard teams. We mean over-confidence. Yale on her own ground is a dangerous opponent, and such an opponent we shall have to contend against next Saturday. Harvard is now at the head of the intercollegiate league and it remains to be seen whether she can continue to hold her own. Only the most careful attention to work can enable her to do so; not the slightest means of improvement consistent with the restrictions...