Word: contention
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mind that the value of the Forum is exactly proportionate to the amount of support accorded it by the student body. It cannot hope to discover and crystallize undergraduate opinion unless its discussions are participated in by men from every branch of College activities. No student should be content to sit idly by while questions of the utmost importance to himself and the University are being disposed of by a small group of men passing current for an entirely representative body. The all-important question of the gymnasium and its relation to physical education are the subjects of discussion...
...current issue of the Advocate can hardly be called exciting. Both prose and verse are on that level of mediocrity on which, it seems, a large proportion of undergraduate writing is content to rest. When I had read it through, my professional judgment instinctively marked it with an undistinguished...
...until that is obtained, it seems to us out of the question to attempt "campaigns"or "booms" for other equipment. Nobody appreciates more than ourselves the absurdity of Harvard's mediaeval gymnasium. But until an adequate library and sanitary laboratories for chemical students are obtained, we must be content with the excellent outdoor athletic facilities we now possess...
...content with her annual drubbing of the Lampoon in baseball, and hockey, the Crimson has decided to establish her supremacy over all aspirants for journalistic honors. She, however, graciously reminds her would-be rivals that only three days remain in which they may round their men into shape. It might be added that the CRIMSON'S, quartet is speedy and in top-notch condition, from which it behooves her less-favored contemporaries to report at the track this afternoon for special instructions in the rudiments of the sport...
...months, I think, we have all welcomed extra pages. This time the twelve additional pages of reading matter not to mention the new advertisements--make the paper just long enough to carry us joyously through the intermissions at the Game, to add the spice of laughter to our content or to lighten--but the Lampoon nowhere suggests gloom...