Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Economic knowledge among the students. As stated in last week's Advocate, the Club has offered a medal, given by the Cobden Club of England, for the best Essay on some Politico-Economic subject. The competition will be open to any member of the University, and the successful competitor will be requested to read his essay in public. The judges are Professor Dunbar and Mr. Laughlin, and a third, to be selected by them, who has no connection with the University. The subjects will be announced in a few days...
...Chauvenet and Horace with no thought or wish that there might be better bargains. If not before the end of his first year, then surely at the beginning of the second, he awakes to the knowledge that he is paying exorbitant prices. He looks around for a competitor to Mr. Sever. Finding none, he has recourse to those students who advertise books at second hand. He is fortunate if he finds what he wishes. By the beginning of his Junior year, at least, he experiments among the Boston bookstores. His eyes are then opened to the true inwardness...