Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashion of tricksters who, juggling egg, watch, orange, drop egg and watch-those family friends who toss a baby to the ceiling and neglect to catch it. Dartmouth's margin would have been greater had Quarterback Dooley, Halfback Oberlander exerted themselves more. As it was, they were content to score only once, winning...
...newest and the oldest works of fiction. The Alcove is owned by two students, Leon Sifschitz 1L., and Bernard Pincus '25. Every sort of book is sold except textbooks, and the proprietors intend to make the Alcove a spot where book lovers may browse about to their hearts' content...
...Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, aged 54, was born in Manhattan., studied at Columbia University, was admitted to the New York State Bar, was elected (in 1913) to the New York State Supreme Court and (in 1917) an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals. He is noted for the thoughtful content and stylistic charm of his opinions...
...last year obtained honor grouping of any description. This is not a record of capacity, but of accomplishment. It would be preposterous to think that more than four-fifths of the upperclassmen are actually unable to meet the requirements for honors. The simple fact is that too many are content with merely satisfactory grades. A man who devotes himself to studies, and nothing else, is thought one-sided. And the opinion is not without foundation. The well known figure of the "grind" is not that of a balanced man in the Greek sense. But there are many examples in Harvard...
However, the students were forced to be content with having a few undergraduates on the reception committee. Two men, Dr. John Collins Warren '63, and Mr. Henry Munroe Rogers '62, who were on the committee, still survive...