Word: contention
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...knows it. We admire her wonderful crew, as does everybody else, and say 'Go over the water, friends, and clean out those blarsted Hinglishmen, and may God bless you!' We would n't pluck a single leaf from her well-earned laurels, and for the time must be content with a seat under the gallery. But when Harvard, with victorious self-assurance, steps one side to tread on our corns and tread on our noses as it were, . . . . we propose to stop it." This indignation is caused by our negotiations with Cornell and Columbia, and by something that has been...
...attempt ought to be made to revive some little kindly feeling among classmates. With our present large classes, we can make comparatively few friends; but we might at least make some real friends, - men in whom we shall take an interest all our lives, and not content ourselves with the acquaintances, mostly of chance or policy, to whom the name friends is often falsely applied, and be on terms of suppressed warfare with every one else. I don't ask Doggy, who, I see, is looking shocked, to be intimate with Grinder, but merely not to treat all except...
...visits to the art galleries and an occasional evening in a drawing-room, - barter these for 80 per cent in Greek and the approbation of Spider? I cannot afford to do so. No! Let Spider spend all his evenings with Socrates and Plato, if he will. I am content to give a few of mine to some modern dramatist at the Museum, or to a little philosophy which might puzzle Socrates himself...
...lived content, and happier...
...have increased his desire for literary fame. Every scrap of paper that fell in his way, - even the backs of his late father's receipted bills and the margins of the Hampton Gazette - he appropriated with a miserly eagerness that reminds one of Pope. Few men are content to write much without a thought of publication, and soon the fatal itching to get into print seized Jeremiah. Whittier, when a farm-boy, sent a poem on a scrap of paper to an editor, and immediately his genius was recognized. Smith did more; he wrote a long article...