Word: gauntlet
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...pleased to see how quickly the newcomer like Mr. Lloyd is assimilated to the Harvard environment, and especially pleased to see the eagerness with which he takes up the gauntlet for his new alma mater. As with most converts, unfortunately, his enthusiasm has lead him far afield...
...something more than a merely academic interest in the forthcoming celebration; it has a secular as well as religious significance. The Harvard Divinity School looks back over a century of institutional vicissitudes and over some of the greatest transformations in human thought. In that period theology has run the gauntlet of evolutionary doctrine and come out with new methods of appeal; it has emerged from its struggle with science modified but strengthened. Religion now finds itself in closer contact with life, and there is a deeper recognition of its meaning for movements of social uplift. Doctrines differ and forms...
...undergraduate is a sensitive creature; he vigorously resents aspersions upon his conversation or intellectual interests. In outraged innocence he arose to condemn some recent strictures upon his table-talk. Nay, more; the Alumni Bulletin took up the gauntlet for him, and although admitting with genial indecision that there might be some ground for the charges, stated that it could not believe that "conversation had sunk, throughout an entire dining hall, to such depths as those into which the CRIMSON peers with despair...
...quite impossible to sell the same waistcoat to four different people, as we are led to believe by their persistency. The ground in front of Memorial seems to have been mutually agreed upon as the choicest field of competition, and so the innocent student must run the gauntlet, to enter or leave the Hall, wondering whether the clothes on his back really do belong to him, while numerous agents hop around from one spot to another to comply with police regulations which say they cannot remain in one place more than five minutes. In other words, these clothes dealers...
...weaker than one which can be labelled with the class name, and can be presented to the class as a responsibility not to be escaped. Another practical advantage of such an organization would be, that any man could join by merely signing his name, and thus avoid running the gauntlet of a trial debate followed by an election...