Word: contention
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," must recur as possessing peculiar relevance. Fortunately, Harvard did not make enough slips to prevent her from winning the cup and at the end of the meeting, Harvard had 61 points to her credit while Yale had to content herself with 51 points and the doubtful consolation that she came very near beating her hereditary rival...
...that track athletics is a "mighty uncertain critter" to make any prophecies about. Who would have been willing to prognosticate, for example, that Corbin would get first prize in the half mile run out of the clutches of Will Wright himself? Or that Wright of Harvard would have to content himself with second place, owing to an unfortunate misunderstanding about the exact position of the finish line? Or that Stillman would beat Evins in the hammer throwing? Or that Wade of Yale would be better by a place than R. H. Davis of Harvard? Yet such was the actual condition...
...difficulty in coming in first, Brown of Harvard finishing second. When it came to the finals, both Brown and Hawes strained every nerve to secure first place for Harvard, but Swayne and Allen were too speedy for their crimson rivals and easily finished first and second. Harvard had to content herself with the third place which Brown won. The time was 10 2-5 seconds...
...more years to his education. Were it not for this generous aid which Harvard is able to hold out, many of those who now reap the great advantages which the university offers in the way of higher education would have to give up their dream of scholarship and content themselves with the education they received in college. It is needless to point out what a difference this would make in the education of a large part of the country. When it is considered that the great number of those who study in the graduate school, in their turn become...
...blame does not rest entirely on the freshmen. The men who took it upon themselves forcibly to prevent the entrance of the procession into the Hall are quite as much to blame. If these men had been content not to interfere in what was not their business, and to wait for the action of the officers of the Hall, there would have been no trouble, and the incident would have resolved itself into a mere indiscretion due to inexperience on the part of the freshmen...