Word: strife
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...Party adlesion tends to purify politics; under a strict party vote. - (a) Deals would be eliminated. - (b) Bribery would be less frequent. - (c) Factional strife would be less common. - (d) Conscientious men more influential when in than when out of a party; H. H. Darling, Harvard Monthly...
Last spring we had abundant opportunity to ferment a spirit of "strife" over the disgraceful conduct of a certain member of the Harvard nine on the Yale field, and also over the malignant articles which appeared in Harvard papers-on the game where no regard was paid to the truth-but we let it pass by in silence for the sake of that good feeling which we joined heart and soul in trying to bring about. The manly spirit as displayed by our athletic teams and by the college in general, we think is quite on a "level" with that...
...they ever had before, and indications pointed to a continuance of the good feeling begun in the contest for that championship; but either the chill of fall weather or the strength of the Harvard eleven has blasted the feeble growth which the spring had nurtured so tenderly, and now strife has returned...
...strife has returned before. True. But now it has not returned to be driven away by any soft words of conciliation. It has come to stay until the spirit of Yale College has risen to a level of manliness high enough to cast its disapproval upon such speeches as that with which Captains Beecher and Peters have favored their friends. The Advocate, in its last number, has some pithy and hard editorials upon the re-appearance of this "muckerism," but we can say that the Advocate has not gone a step too far. Men who would speak as these...
...will be on the line of travel between Europe and the great West. Although Harvard must envy Columbia for this, she can revert to the past and exclaim that a university in the midst of a large city, and influenced by the rush of business affairs and every-day strife, can never be the home of the deepest thinkers and the most attentive scholars. The very fact that Columbia is in New York may work untold evil instead of countless benefits. True the atmosphere of the metropolis is a great educator, but is it not rather unhealthy when breathed...