Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Encouraged by the favorable comments which the Vagabond received last spring, it has been decided to continue it during the present year in the same spirit, making it much more elastic both in form and in content. Although resting primarily upon the basis of lectures given by members of the faculty of the University, lectures and performances not directly connected with the University will also appear...
Ideal. "A college education ought to fit a man or woman to be content in any occupation, because it enlarges the capacity for the enjoyment of the intellectual and spiritual side of life. It seems to me that a man with a college education and an artisan's income would be almost in an ideal position...
...that elephant?... Turn slowly, you can't miss him. . . Well, that's 'Big Bill' Edwards " And "Big Bill" Edwards catching the glance, will chuckle within himself. He is fat now; he couldn't run two hundred yards, but one thing he remains, and is content to remain, something that it is hard to find a name for, except an old one, and that is-well, -spectacular...
...excerpts from the sensational meanderings of a mind with a grudge against the History Department with words of a kindred lack of seriousness, the Presidency of Harvard University is a position based on positive values. The list of Menchenisms of Mr. Baldwin are negative values. Those who could be content with Will Durant's "Outline of Philosophy" for a guide to truth will find in "The Next President of Harvard--a Prediction" the reasons for choosing a university president. Others will not. And those others are the Corporation and the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. Nor is there...
There remains one finishing touch to make the Student Council Budget a success the prompt payment of the amounts pledged. Once these sums are paid pocket-books may rest content, having discharged both their philanthropic and patriotic duties for the year...