Word: contention
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...student who must live on a comparatively small amount of money-and the number of such who come to Harvard is very large-the cost of board is the most important variable in expenses. The increased price of board would have one of two effects. Either such students must content themselves with poorer board and the inevitable reaction on health and intellectual power, or else they must give up the idea of Harvard and choose some other university...
...whom he or she meets. We are more apt to notice this trait in the child with its subtle charm and winsome ways, "the gracious boy who doth adorn the world into which he is born." Grace is the fairest, the rarest gift of life. We are often content if we are told that we are doing our duty but what would a home be when all did their duty and nothing more, it would be decorus, severe and just, but there would be no grace or graciousness. In the life of each one of us comes a moment when...
...given that every seat in the theatre which has been sold is good, and will furnish a satisfactory view of the play. The undersirable seats, those in the end sections of the balcony and the gallery, will not be used. With this arrangement we believe undergraduates will be content. To yield the most desirable seats is, under the circumstances, the plain bidding of courtesy...
...intends to make to Philadelphia the last of May to play the Pennsylvania and Haverford teams. We believe that the trip may be made a very good thing for Harvard. Not long since the Harvard Club of Philadelphia, owing to lack of interest, gave up its rooms, and will content itself, in future, with an annual dinner. Such a deficit of interest in one of the most populous cities from which come many college men is unfortunate and ought to be remedied if possible...
...many of them excellent reading, and a slight acquaintance with them will almost always bring with it the desire for greater familiarity. Not only are they thus interesting in themselves, but they form the best background for Shakespeare's works, and it is a shame that we are content to take him without...