Word: contend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University eleven will be forced to contend against a much stronger team tomorrow than was the case against Bates last Saturday...
...misconception has provoked the spirited derision or the silent scorn of those famaliar with the facts. Acknowledging that the use of alcoholic stimulants had has a certain vogue at Harvard, they deny that it has been greater there than at other universities; and they contend that no one can tell whether its influence has been for good or evil. Alcohol has damaged some young men in college, no doubt,--though it would probably have damaged them just the same if they had never gone to college. That it has been an aid to others without doing them any harm...
...dual track meets will be held next Saturday in which University teams will compete. The University team meets Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Technology and the Freshman squad will contend with Andover, at Andover. For the men of the University team this will be the second try-out. At the Pennsylvania relay carnival they won a first, four seconds, and two thirds. In that meet Yale won one first, and Princeton two firsts, two seconds, and a third. In the meets this week there are no team events, but the men who defeated Yale in the relay...
Preparations for the Freshman jubilee to take place in Smith Halls tomorrow afternoon and evening are now rapidly nearing completion. The final practice for the dormitory choruses which will contend for the silver loving cup presented by a group of University graduates, will be held in the Smith Halls Common Room tonight at 7 o'clock. All arrangements for the informal dance in the evening and for the spread which will precede it have been made...
...representing, in theory at least, all political elements of the nation, has seen a trying period in English development. It has had to face the problems of directing a great war; it has had brought before it internal problems of social and economic reorganization; and it has had to contend with questions of race and empire whose seriousness cannot be overestimated. Under such a condition of affairs internal trouble and frequent dissatisfaction with the government's policies have only been natural. The labor question has at all times been grave. The conduct of the war has no doubt occasioned numerous...