Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...correspondents of the public press, however, usually express the true opinion of the students in regard to their athletic prospects with a great deal of accuracy. From a letter from Yale to the New York Tribune of Feb. 20, we learn that "the boating men of Yale are now content. . . . Yale's boating prospects were never brighter. Successive victories over Harvard at New London in the last two years have given an additional stimulus to aquatics at Yale, but neither this nor last year's brilliant prospects have brought over-weening confidence. Judging from the manner in which the crew...
...left you? Never!" he cried fervently. She shut her eyes again, in lazy content. "Where were you?" she asked...
...content to get their bread...
...Content to breathe their native...
...words are as true now as they were a year since. No change for the better has been made. We still have less English than either Greek or Latin or German. And the Sophomore required work is hardly a compensation for the mathematical and classical Freshman work. But not content with one injustice, it is now, as the writer understands, proposed to add another : the Faculty are discussing the advisability of doing away entirely with required Rhetoric and Themes. If it were at the same time proposed to abandon required work altogether, there would be room for warm approval; otherwise...