Word: contend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meddling by the officers of the college in Business School affairs is one of the difficulties with which we have had to contend from the first. Sympathy and enthusasm is all right in its place but should not be too ostentatious. This evil extends to the undergraduates, and our earnest workers are greatly bothered by crowds of curious sightseers that flock across the river from the Yard at all times...
Those opposing any radical enlargement of the Stadium contend that it would put Harvard football on a professional basis--people would not come to see Harvard play, but to see football played, and with this change in purpose would come all the other disadvantages of professional athletics; that to pay for the Stadium would make this general invitation to the public necessary at all but the Yale game; that this marks a definite shift from "athletics-for-all" to "a chance to see athletics-for-all"--that Harvard needs a golf course and other equipment for active use more than...
...present", added Dr. Erickson, "the school is thriving in spite of the great difficulties--earthquakes, torrential rains and lack of equipment--against which it has had to contend. Several buildings are now under construction, and the boys' dormitory, is already accupied...
...hold that they, too, are entitled to force the U. S. to pay the duties imposed by their general tariff schedule. But they are willing to conclude treaties with countries prepared to grant them reciprocal treatment. As certain French commodities must pay the maximum U. S. duty, the French contend that certain U. S. goods must pay the maximum French duties. Seemingly there is no way out of the impasse, although it was admitted in responsible quarters that every nerve will be strained to prevent a ruinous tariff...
...Vare's opponents contend that he is not rightfully a "member of the Senate of the United States." When the Senate convenes in December and Mr. Vare rises to take his oath of office, these opponents will doubtless move that the oath be not administered. It is felt by some that Mr. Vare's pre-election expenses were scandal- ously high...