Word: content
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is a type of man in college who had enough on ordinary occasions, makes himself particularly obnoxious at this time of the year, when the final examinations are in full swing. We refer to the man who, not content with the privileges offered him by the library, is willing to sacrifice his own self respect and discommode his neighbor, by abusing these privileges to his utmost. It is a common occurrence when you wish to consult some reserved books in the departmental alcoves, to find some grasping individual in the same course comfortably seated with all the desirable volumes...
...beleive that Yale has had any idea of making a third game possible. She has offered every possible obstacle to a satisfactory settlement of the question and has brought forward no substantial argument in support of her position. She has taken no initiative step whatever, but has been content to refuse every scheme advanced by Harvard...
...obstinately, uncompromisingly insist on a rule when she sees that it must inevitably lead to just such an unsettled condition at the end of the season, providing each team wins on its home grounds? Or at least, if she chooses to insist, it is strange that she should seem content to let things stand as they are. Her reasons are not tenable; at least they apply to her no more strongly than to us. They are not true to her previous conditions and this, we think, is conclusively shown in Harvard's last letter...
...they would tell him not to consider the debt as standing against them, but to transfer it with interest to the generation about to come after. Most men are not in a position where they can give very much at once to their successors in college; they have to content themselves with the thought that the time will come later when they shall be able to add to the richness of Harvard. But a little every man can do even before he steps out of the college. He can give his books, or some of them, to be used...
...which Harvard offers for 1892-93 has in it unmistakable signs of advance. After a college has worked out such a complicated and liberal system of electives as Harvard has been building up, it is natural to expect that after those years of construction the university would settle down, content to run along for some time to come on the lines which it has with such pains laid down. This, however, does not satisfy the progressive spirit of Harvard. Every year new courses are offered, and new fields are opened for the acquisitions of a better and more enlightened education...