Word: contention
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...half with a strong wind blowing in favor of Chicago. Instead of playing a kicking game during this half Chicago persisted in sending her backs into the Yale line. Yale made her three touchdowns by persistent plugging and in the second half with the wind in her favor was content to leave the score as it was, and played a cautious, defensive game, punting as often as possible and thus keeping Chicago from getting into her territory...
...October Atlantic Monthly which is now current is the fortieth anniversary number. The content of the number is unusually meritorious...
...With regard to the rest, I must content myself with noting the very great strides made by Wrightington...
...taste; it will be useful to students, but caviar to the public. It is not, then, worth while to take Grimm's words to heart, and to have the courage to fail rather than leave the task unattempted? If the critic can be more helpful, he may be content to be less profound, original, or mature." The first three chapters of the work sketch the development of French literature till the close of the eighteenth century, that the reader may be reminded of those authors whose influence is still felt. The chapters that follow, however, discuss only those writers...
...Harvard must work, hard and steadily. That a great many men will work hard we have no doubt, for there is a great deal of earnest and well directed, though undemonstrative, enthusiasm in debating throughout the University. But there is a larger number of men who may content themselves with wishing Harvard success instead of working for success...