Word: combat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class and then to the University than he would to the University taken alone. It is easier to commence with the part and work up to the whole than to take the whole at once. Besides this, there is considerable danger that specialization may lead to narrowness and, to combat this danger, all influences are to be welcomed that make us for a time feel the force of the efforts of other men and thus to judge of the true importance...
...writer in the last number of the Advocate in defending the policy of the paper under the new management says that its purpose will be "to combat, not foster the growing spirit of Harvard indifference, than which no worst pest was ever sent from below," This certainly is a very worthy endeavor, but we feel that the writer has made an implication which is decidedly untrue to college life at present . We wonder on what grounds the Advocate can maintain that there is a growing spirit of "Harvard indifference," The term is one which we believed had almost passed...
...Herrick and H. Bates, respectively. The former tells of the ambitions and disappointments of Eben Williams and the "schoolmarm." The scene of the latter is laid in Iceland. It is written in the old English style, which the author has been particularly happy in catching. The description of the combat is rather improbable, but the story as a whole has great literary merit...