Word: content
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...peculiar. I had all my usual perceptions about me. I saw everything that was in the room, heard what the children were saying, felt the warmth of the fire. What was the need of a body? True I could not move; but, in such pleasant surroundings, I was well content to stay where I was. So, in fact, it was not until I thought of exercising the American prerogative, and putting my feet on the fender, that I found out my corporeal insufficiency. As I say, I was perfectly contented. Although I knew that if I should...
Among the naughty practices of our freshmen, and we fear also of some upper classmen, is that of surreptitiously "appropriating" the signs of Cambridge tradesmen. As long as this annoyance was limited to our hereditary extortioners, we were content to pass over the transgression in silence. When, however, our esteemed contemporary, the Lampoon, is subjected to a loss by the mania for decorative signs and shingles, it is incumbent upon us to protest against the extension of this line of business. In a communication to the CRIMSON, the editors of the Lampoon have stated their grievance. They are robbed...
...force of this remark will be evident to all. To make the services there as wholesome as possible the authorities seem bound to have them run on an economical manner that each morning a lesson against worldly extravagance may be inculcated in the heart of the spendthrift student. Not content with the saving of 97 cents made by not lighting the lamps in the yard in recess the careful "watch dogs of the treasury" wish to save an additional penny by not using gas in the chapel on very dark days, when it is needed. The pulpit alone is lighted...
...Harvard man is modelled after the old Stoics. The most exciting event in the outside social and political life receives from him a few laconic comments, and then he relapses again into his former state of let come what will, God rules and Harvard still lives, so I am content. But there have been many exceptions to this general rule. At times of great political excitement, the Harvard Union debates on the leading subjects of the day, have been able to attract two or three hundred men from their firesides. The touchlight processions of the presidential years have also possessed...
...York, and a telegram from him saved our eleven a useless trip to New Haven. And now Yale alleging some at all. Therefore of Yale may possibly be explained by the fact that Harvard undoubtedly has a strong team this year. However that may be, Harvard must now content herself with a forfeited game in place of a probable victory...