Word: contention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true that Dartmouth will make no violent opposition to the proposition, choosing rather to submit quietly to a manifest injustice than to obtain the unenviable reputation of obstinacy and grumbling. It is certainly true that should the division be attempted she will decline to enter the smaller league, and content herself with playing such individual games as may be arranged, in which success is by no means doubtful, owing to the strong material she now possesses from which an excellent nine can easily be selected...
...goodies, will thus be secured. The contract for the year's washing also, it will be seen, will by this time have been entered into. Thus, whoever may step into the places of the strikers, will be deprived of these perquisites and will be unlikely to be content simply with the wages offered for the work. These particulars we can vouch for. There is only one remedy : Omit the usual presents, leave no articles loose in your rooms when you go home, and refuse to enter into any seemingly innocent washing contract if presented. Thus and thus only...
...they themselves presumably abide, and he cites the Vassar tendency to imitate Harvard and Yale as evidence of the truth of his statement, mentioning hotel dinners with toasts and responses as especially worthy of condemnation. Possibly, if the boys and girls were in the same institution, the latter would content themselves with giving five-o'clock tea parties and similar entertainments. It is only when women isolate themselves from men that they try to imitate manly foibles. - [Woman's Journal...
...Princeton at the same time in Harvard's own back-yard," thereby insinuating that the referee worked against Yale in favor of Harvard, when, as every body knows, it was for Princeton's advantage to have Yale win, it seems that insult has been added to injury. Not content, however, to let matters rest here, the Yale News felt itself called upon to uphold the tone of its college by directly insulting the captain of our team, covertly charging him with connivance with Princeton to cheat Yale. What grounds the News had for making so serious a charge, we have...
...gymnasium has received some repairs. The roof has been fixed and a new covering has been put upon the running track. I suppose that it will be necessary to be content with the old one until some benefactor appears, but a new gymnasium is one of the most pressing needs of our college...