Word: contention
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...candidates and to be of lower caliber than the size of the University warrants? Wrestling, swimming and gymnastics have had a precarious existence for some time; basketball fell by the wayside long ago. Yet these same sports are enthusiastically entered in to at all other colleges. Undergraduates are content to have Harvard lamely represented in the minor sports although these offer an opportunity of great physical improvement, and exercise at the time of year when it is hardest to get. The new professional coach for the Gymnasium team may be an evidence of reviving interest in that direction. The Athletic...
...aspect of Football Ethics," as given by Mr. Parke H. Davis of Princeton is a broad and enlightening explanation of the "scout system" as employed in present day football. The illustrations accompanying the article are good but are not essentially descriptive of the content of the article...
...contents are not above average merit, judging them by the standards of undergraduate composition. Of the three poems, the most ambitious and decidedly the best is "Nobody's Land." One passes indifferently over the trite "heart-story" which lies behind this rhapsody and forgives Mr. Jopling some melodramatic lines, content to find in him true appreciation of the great western desert and a gift of expression which sometimes reaches eloquence. There is nothing to praise, in Mr. Murdock's effusion on "The Game." It embodies an idea latent in the minds of many people, that poetry means making similes...
...have been wild moments in the past when the editors of the Harvard Monthly rushed about indiscriminately with muck-rakes, the magazine has usually disregarded literary fads and enjoyed a conservative reputation. The Monthly is still conservative in appearance; no artist's model smirks on the cover; but the contents of the excellent November number show here and there ravages of the bacilli that beset the ten-cent magazines, Mr. Petersen, for instance, has caught the--Red Blood Craze. His cattleship story called "Murph"--well-constructed and boldly written and vivid as it unquestionably is--is too full of perspiration...
...years that lie immediately before us today. The world is more plastic than it has ever been before; the world is less held by its fixed traditions. It is more ready to adopt new ideas; it is more ready to turn into new paths. It is less content with the conditions it has reached, the results already achieved, than it has been in any period of history. The world is ready to follow...