Word: rival
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...network of railroads covers Germany and has caused an enormous increase of commerce. In literature a great improvement has taken place. Schools, universities, polytechnics have all increased in number of attendants, and many good works have been published. This resuscitation of Germany has caused her neighbors to try to rival her and has brought up the rather strained condition of European politics...
...always been very large, and to this fact its success is largely to be attributed We hope, therefore, that the call for men this year will be heeded, and that there may be no lack of men from whom a strong team may be chosen to meat our rival colleges in New York next...
...Lick Observatory is to have a rival nearly 1000 feet higher than Mt. Hamilton, and situated in Colorado, at an elevation of nearly 5,000 feet above the sea level. The new observatory will be attached to the University of Colorado...
...take the train for St. Louis. One of the most magnificent of Pullman cars was provided for the party. As the train glided over the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, the majority of the men endeavored to make up for lost time by taking prolonged naps. The only rival sleep found was whist...
...founding new colleges is dying, while at the same time the people recognize that it is better to patronize institutions already in existence. Our surplus of colleges has threatened to become a nuisance. Were our efforts confined to improving our most powerful universities, we might well hope to rival the German universities. Even New England has found it profitable to diminish her small number of educational institutions. In the last decade the number of her colleges has decreased by three; New York has lost two. In the Southern States, twenty-three colleges have died out, while the number of students...