Word: contend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...outcry raised in the French capital against foreign students, the indictment against them apparently amounting to this, that they work harder than the general run of French students, and, passing their examinations more successfully in consequence, reap the legitimate reward of their industry and application. Their French colleagues, however, contend that the positions in hospitals obtainable by successful competitors in examinations ought to be reserved for Frenchmen-for those who "pay taxes; the blood tax above all." They would not go so far as to demand the exclusion of foreigners from the various lectures or courses, but they would like...
...shall be allowed to play here at Harvard, even if the Faculty sees fit to put an end to Inter-collegiate foot ball. And if this step is taken, we feel sure that before many years elapse the Faculty will have regained sufficient intelligence to allow us to again contend with other colleges in this most important and beneficial of our fall sports...
...materials for study of the vast interests involved to political and economic science in the railroads even of the United States alone, are by no means few and inaccessible. It is a subject, we contend, which in the degree of its importance ranks only after the tariff and the financial history of the United States subjects covered by the courses in Political Economy numbered 6 and 8,- and the extent of popular ignorance of it is far greater than of at least the forms of these subjects. The department of Political Economy at Harvard has always been very fertile...
Yale enthusiasm-Two nines, composed of men who have not played base-ball since entering college, will contend for a box of cigars and a keg of beer at Hamilton Park on Wednesday at 2 P. M.-the beer to be put on tap at Traeger's in the evening. [News...
...necessary abandonment of games with many colleges. They will also be forced to give up the annual series of games with the Beacons, and will even be prevented from playing with a nine picked from the graduates of this college, as has been customary heretofore. Being obliged to contend with weaker nines, the games will be one-sided and uninteresting...