Word: discordant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposition smacks too much of small-town chamber of commerce advertising to make it even conceivable as a method of creating harmony from the discord caused by the present stacks. To see a great red "H" towering over the landscape from all points of view would scarcely give the casual observer an impression of Harvard dignity and learned calm. It were better to have Harvard study by candle-light huddled over a wood first than to have it so colossally misrepresented by the attempt to cover up the source of its heat and light...
...were prejudiced in favor of our visitor's side of the subject. They were not alumni of Harvard. It would seem, therefore, that when Mr. Palmer assumes that the judges "are completely in accord with the Institution and ideas which the Harvard team stood for and are completely in discord with the principles that the team from the West brings with them," he is not even correct in his premise, which renders his rather violent conclusion that therefore they were unfit and would act unfairly, distasteful to believers in fair play...
...East vs. West debate the judges should all be New Englanders. Putting to one side the personal characteristics of the judges, can it be that they, who are completely in accord with the institution and ideas that the Harvard team stood for and who are completely in discord with the principles that the team from the West brings with them, can it be that they can judge such a debate fairly? It seems to me that they are absolutely unfitted for such a task. Why could we have not had judges from Chicago or New York or some place that...