Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their practice games this year the team must not be content with making points itself, but it must see that the other teams make none. Vigilance in guarding against accidents is of the utmost importance, and the carefulness and steadiness of play they will acquire in consequence will be their greatest hope for making a good record in the championship games...
...will be seen in another column, the Cleveland and Hendricks Club of the Law School, not content with refusing to join the Republican procession, intend to issue an invitation to all undergraduates who hold the same political opinions with them to join the club and march in the Democratic ranks. We hope, however, that the club will not carry out their action; but if they do we hope the invitation will meet with the refusal of the undergraduates. Most of the Law students are voter and attach more political significance to their action than do the undergraduates. A club which...
...principle was carried at Oxford yesterday by a large majority, (100 to 46), its application was limited to a capricious selection of subjects, and was hampered by sundry restrictions. We are glad, however, to learn from the Warden of Merton's speech that the promoters will not be content until they have won "complete academical equality" for women. [Pall Mall...
...remarks at the Harvard Club dinner, at Delmonicos' last Thursday, Mr. C. M. Depew, president of the Yale Club, said: "In many things Yale is content to follow and learn of Harvard. This willingness extended even to New London;" and before the laughter had died away the speaker continued, "And last fall and the fall before and I don't know how many more falls, Yale also followed Harvard across the foot-ball field up town...
...Columbia! that you should have come to this. Not content with your experience of last year, your glorious (?) victory of two years ago, you must extort this resolution from our willing faculty, ready to yield anything to any college, however unimportant, that had the hardihood to ask. The authority of dozens of races, won in the last mile, of hosts of crew men, who have rowed in four-mile races and are still "alive," is as nothing beside the desire to propitiate everybody. Princeton and Columbia, according to common report, have succeeded in gaining concessions from Harvard. We should like...