Word: contended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...administer the trust fund of about $50,000, to the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. This latter body has the lease from April 1, and the suit will best their ability to hold such a lease, and the ability of the Trustees to grant it. Representatives of the Harvard Chapter contend that they have never severed their connection with the present organization, and therefore such actions are illegal...
...Church. "The Church is greater than the creeds." This idea coincides with Bishop Lawrence's famous utterance : "I cannot define the Triune God," and, from a different point of view with Voltaire's remark: "I will believe in God if you will stop trying to define him." Liberals contend that the spirit of Jesus cannot be caught and perpetually held in any immutable creed...
...Union pool tournament, after the second semi-finals match this afternoon between James Albert '26 and I. Shapiro ocC., will have narrowed down to two men, the winner of this match and L. Blatt '24, who won the other semi-finals match on Tuesday. These men will contend for the University championship tonight. Shapiro, who was champion in 1922, is a strong contender for the title this year...
...Charles Blount Jr. '18 writing from Lyon, France, to the Alumni Bulletin makes use of the familiar "reductio ad absurdum" argument to demolish the case of those who contend that no one should "deny to any young man the opportunities of a Harvard education." And he indulges in some caustic irony at the expense of those who, on the grounds of democracy and liberalism, would throw open the gates to every eager young...
...greater seriousness that the real value to be gained from college is the ability to meet and handle other men and that this is best acquired outside the classroom. Still others will trace the emphasis on practical achievement in college to the materialistic basis of American civilization and will contend that college men are best preparing themselves for life by the very means which Mr. Lamont condemns on the part of the private school men. Moreover, so it is claimed, they are forced to concentrate when studying and are gaining as much from a few hours as they would otherwise...