Word: contention
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...article on problems confronting the Department of Economics Professor Taussig writes that "the most striking change that has taken place during the last fifty years in the content of the college curriculum has been the dominance acquired by the political and economic subjects...
...enthusiasm for new ideas. In an institution such as this, where the stuff of life is thought, such intellectual relapses and stagnation are least excusable. Nevertheless, the University is situated in one of the few localities in this country in which a newspaper can advise its readers to be content to peg along in the world...
...person who sits in the cheering section and is content to let the man next to him do the cheering, is just as much a quitter as a football player who refuses to give all of his effort to the team. The cheering and singing at the Brown game was deplorable. Any one can cheer when Harvard succeeds in scoring, but spirit is cheering and urging the team to its best effort when the other side apparently has the advantage. Now, we are going to have a mass meeting on Wednesday and a parade to the field on Thursday...
...young Harvard men do not ask ourselves and our elders these questions, If we are content to have the same type of thought served up to us in our own University daily paper as is provided in any of the commercial press, then we deserve to be turned out by a highly efficient machine as "highly specialized experts" able to destroy the works of civilization, but utterly incapable to achieve either physical, mental or spiritual construction on new and really democratic lines . . . "Where there is no vision, the people perish." LEON SHERMAN PRATT 1Dv. W. HARRIS CROOK...
...that their own colleges should reap the benefit. Obviously this, while it has explanatory value, cannot reconcile the College to the danger of becoming a local institution. The activities of the Harvard Clubs throughout the country and of the now defunct Territorial Clubs show that Harvard men are not content with explaining the phenomenon. It is the opinion of many that the examination system is largely responsible. This feeling has led to the establishment of the New Plan which, while good as far as it goes, has not changed the situation radically. The Faculty looks with horror upon admission...