Word: contention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sightedness any the less sight than near-sightedness? If you mean by "prudence" near-sightedness, then we do not claim for it the meaning of far-sightedness, nor indeed do we desire to have anything to do with it. But I am convinced that not even political economy is content to accept prudence of this sort as an attribute. Again, to cap the climax, "There are no two characters more unlike than the heroic man and the prudent man." Do you hear this, students of political economy? You are not Christians. There are no germs of heroism in your souls...
...This latter alternative is rather the worse of the two, for the bully often outgrows his youthful failings, but the suspicious man is always shunned and disliked in return for his timidity. Yet we are forced to accept the latter proposition, for we cannot consider that Yale will be content to override her inferiors in base-ball, or without taking part, to watch her natural rivals contending amongst themselves; for it is our hope that Harvard, Princeton and Columbia will now join hands and continue the formation of the new league, and let Yale enjoy her empty honors. Yale...
...then the various athletic organizations have considerably increased the severity of their training. The University Crew, owing to the mildness of the weather, have been able to row in the harbor very frequently during the past week, but owing to this cold snap they will again have to be content with their regular gymnasium work. Long runs and walks continue to be the characteristic feature of the work of the men training for the Mott Haven team, and the candidates for the nine are necessarily still limited to their work in the cage. Great preparations are being made...
...have some unusually good material and that they are doing everything to retrieve their losses of last fall. If this be true, you will have to look sharp to your laurels, else they will be snatched away. Emulate the example which has been set you by '89. Be not content with one victory over Yale, but win both ball games. Strict attention to duty and implicit obedience to your captain are the only means of arriving at the end which not only your classmates, but also the whole college, wish you to attain...
...every reason to claim for ourselves a place in the front rank of American universities, and yet this claim is seldom made. The press teems with the well-grounded self-congratulations of Harvard and Yale. Princeton is, in name, about to become a university, while we at Pennsylvania are content to hide our light under a bushel. We have a corps of professors at least equal to that of any institution in America: we have open to us courses of study in all directions; we can become classical scholars, philologists, mathematicians, engineers, chemists, botanists, financiers, biologists, physicians, dentists, veterinary surgeons...