Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...among the hundreds of other men who have not discovered, as yet, this "uncongenial aristocratic, and moneyed atmosphere," which is noticed by this unfortunate writer. But to come to the most serious part of this newspaper article; impelled not by prejudice, perhaps, but by ignorance, this person is not content with attempting to defame the personal character of certain of the most respected and upright members of the senior and junior classes, but has attempted in a closing paragraph to depreciate the fair name of our college, whose honor we trust will never be stained by being compelled to acknowledge...
Then, because she had to punish some of her boys as all good mothers must, people made a big talk over it and said they were all badly brought up. Not content with all this, now within a few days they say that she shows favoritism in giving her boys pocket-money, that she doesn't give some of them enough to eat and that although she has plenty of money, she won't build an addition to the house, but allows the boys to be crowded out, to sleep in the shed or at the neighbor...
forced to content themselves with a sandwich or two for dinner. This was but a poor preparation for the fatigue of the torch-light procession, and is a strong argument in the favor of establishing a decent restaurant here in Cambridge...
...march of the undergraduates will be very brief, hardly worth the trouble of preparation, the love of long waiting, the remaining in Cambridge on a day when the crowd of Alumni will fill all the buildings and deprive you of seeing or hearing speeches, etc. If he undergraduates are content to abandon the escort, I should, for the above reasons, be glad. Yours truly, HENRY...
...last attempt to lower records. Previously he had broken all the records from 100 to 220 yards, and on this occasion he intended to add the 80, 100, and 440 yards to the list. He did not succeed, however, in lowering the record for 100 yards, and had to content himself with tying...