Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wholesome. He smells of soap and water. When he wears a dinner jacket he gives the impression that he would be more comfortable in something less formal. He finds no particular need to defend himself so long as he beats Harvard and Princeton each year in football. He is content with the world as he finds it and is, in fact, quite normal...
...scholarship through contests between various colleges an entirely new field of intercollegiate competition is opened up. No longer will the undergraduate desirous of contributing to the fame of his college or of winning renown for himself be forced to direct his energies to athletic achievement or to be content with the vague assurance that in devoting himself assiduously to his studies he is somehow adding to the intellectual prestige of his Alma Mater and storing up future treasures for himself. It is Mrs. Putnam's intention that the scholar who aids his college to victory over a rival by writing...
...average man than the older chronicle. Dr. Goodspeed defined his purpose: "It has been truly said that any translation of a masterpiece must be a failure, but if this can . . . bring home the . . . messages of the New Testament ... to the life of our time, the translator will be well content...
...content with the stirring up of civil tumult, Ex-Registrar Goodwin has taken to the larger field of international diplomacy. The unfortunate situation created by Secretary MacDonald's reference to squirrels and Mexican generals in his statement about Mr. Goodwin is still more entangled by the latter's course. It was bad enough for the Commonwealth to be at sword's points with one foreign power; now Mr. Goodwin would bring Sweden into the fray, and his pointed allusion to the Sacco-Vanzetti commission of last summer may annoy the irritable Signor Mussolini and cause Italy to be arrayed among...
...advent of the tutorial system into geology has been preceded by experimentation in isolated geologica courses. Most significant is the fact that the Department has not been content with this; that, as Professor Mather says elsewhere in this issue, to the other requirements of a degree from Harvard College in geology has been added an ability, certified by General Examination to orient oneself within the entire field. Only the first tentative year of the tutorial system, in the Department of History, Government and Economics, takes precedence over the experiment of the Departments of Geology and Biology. The eyes...