Word: contentment
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...upon him. But the proper thing for Harvard to do is to follow the 27 precedents it has made in this century, by conferring the customary honor upon the present chief magistrate. Then if anybody wants to change his will, why let him change it to his heart's content. - [Post...
...some of the colleges," says the professor, "it has lately become a fashion to publish 'class statistics,' tabulated facts respecting the age, stature, weight, prospective employments, etc., of the graduating class. Not content with reporting these facts, which are not wholly devoid of interest, the compilers of these documents proceed to set down a statement of the number of profane swearers, of habitual imbibers of intoxicating drink, and of those who have occasionally drunk to excess. They have not yet arrived at the point of inquiry of the candidates for the bachelor's degree whether they have been guilty...
Complaint is being made that the one instructor in elocution at Harvard is not enough to go around. If the authorities will furnish us a piece of one as a curiosity for the museum we will be content for a time. - [Michigan Argonaut...
...From the time that the American youth enters college until he graduates he rarely gives the slightest evidence that he knows anything about humor. He learns the venerable practical jokes that have been handed down from one undergraduate generation to another. He never originates a new joke, but is content to repeat the stupid exploits of dull predecessors." Surely the Times man has overlooked the recent bench-greasing exploit at Dartmouth, or the illustrated supplement which the Yale News formerly indulged...
...well the theory that has so often been expressed at Harvard of late, when it says: "The trouble with college athletics is not that they occupy too much of the attention of the students, but that they are not for the many. That the majority of college men are content to take their exercise by proxy - in reading and talking about the work done by the nine and crew rather than in doing a reasonable amount for themselves...