Word: contention
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WISH to call attention to the penny-wise and pound-foolish policy which the Memorial Hall Dining Association is pursuing, in crowding men into tables much to the discomfort of every one. This is especially noticeable in the small room, where, not content with packing forty boarders into very limited quarters, measures are being taken to sit fourteen at each table, instead of twelve. I believe there are more than thirty boarders at Memorial beyond the seating capacity; and, although we are told that this number helps to reduce the cost of living, there are few of us who would...
...three years they have given their time and energy to the crew, and have done much to place the Harvard boat in the high position she now enjoys. We are certain that the hopes and good wishes of the University are with them, and that she is quite content to leave the Harvard boat to them, to the new men, and to her efficient captain, satisfied that whatever position the boat will take in the next race, it will be no disgraceful one for the proud record of the Harvard...
EVERY now and then some one of our "esteemed" contemporaries inveighs against the appreciative but unconscientious student who borrows the papers from the reading-room. The men at Dartmouth, however, are not quite so wicked as that: they content themselves with cutting out whatever happens to suit their taste, and the rest they leave generously to those who may come after. Moreover, "these persons are the very ones who leave their subscriptions to the Dartmouth unpublished," as that righteously indignant journal informs...
...England by any means. Can you explain to me how, with so few athletic men at Harvard, as appears from the account of the games I above mentioned, you are able to get up so fine an eight? I hope it does n't imply that your University is content to see these few men do all the work, and win all the laurels, while it looks on, applauding victories, and finding fault at defeats...
...prove this last remark would require my entering into minute details, which would not interest your readers, and so I must content myself with the simple assertion that quite a number of little improvements which the New-Londoners had planned to make, for the benefit of the University crews of Harvard and Yale, will necessarily have to be abandoned in case any other crews are in practice at the same time upon the river. Having for a dozen years and more attended all the intercollegiate regattas at Worcester, Springfield, and Saratoga, and having carefully examined the causes which have invariably...