Word: gauntlet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pleased to see how quickly the newcomer like Mr. Lloyd is assimilated to the Harvard environment, and especially pleased to see the eagerness with which he takes up the gauntlet for his new alma mater. As with most converts, unfortunately, his enthusiasm has lead him far afield...
...something more than a merely academic interest in the forthcoming celebration; it has a secular as well as religious significance. The Harvard Divinity School looks back over a century of institutional vicissitudes and over some of the greatest transformations in human thought. In that period theology has run the gauntlet of evolutionary doctrine and come out with new methods of appeal; it has emerged from its struggle with science modified but strengthened. Religion now finds itself in closer contact with life, and there is a deeper recognition of its meaning for movements of social uplift. Doctrines differ and forms...
...undergraduate is a sensitive creature; he vigorously resents aspersions upon his conversation or intellectual interests. In outraged innocence he arose to condemn some recent strictures upon his table-talk. Nay, more; the Alumni Bulletin took up the gauntlet for him, and although admitting with genial indecision that there might be some ground for the charges, stated that it could not believe that "conversation had sunk, throughout an entire dining hall, to such depths as those into which the CRIMSON peers with despair...