Word: contend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reformers who decline to relinquish the degree of A. B., with all that it implies, to the conservatives, may contend that it has long meant nothing more than graduation from a higher institution of learning. It threw some light on the probable courses of study of the recipient, but none at all on the quality of his instruction or the height of culture and discipline attained. For all practical purposes it was necessary to affix the name of the college or "university" conferring the degree. This is still and will always be necessery, and the conservatives have a complete remedy...
...some as a monohippic institution, and to others as the Harvard Shakspere Club, which, after winning for itself a brief but more than cosmopolitan renown, quietly expired. Many of its former friends breathed a sigh of relief at its dissolution, and now say, peace to its ashes. Others, however, contend that the absence of the "hippos" ought not to mean the annihilation of the Club, but that the society now has an opportunity to bestow dramatic laurels upon undergraduates as well as upon more advanced students of "the art of dramatic expression." One interested speaks of the opportunity...
...yacht, named "The Thistle," is being built in England to contend for the America...
...have accomplished this year what has been hitherto impossible, our freshman team has beaten Yale. The coming freshman team, we believe, will win the three important games of the year, Yale, Exeter and Andover, for there will no longer be an unbroken record of defeats against which to contend...
...eleven. There is no reason why '90 should not have a foot-ball eleven of which she may feel proud, provided that the captain gets all the candidates for the team out on the field immediately. '90 will labor under no such disadvantages with which '89 had to contend last year. In the first place, the prospect of a game with Yale should act as the greatest kind of an incentive for work, hard work and not fooling. Secondly, the 'varsity team will afford considerable practice, besides furnishing an innumerable number of "points," a great advantage to a raw eleven...