Word: rival
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other. As to the inter-collegiate sports, we have every promise of coming out with an easily won championship. Our entries are so numerous that there are fair chances of our winning in some unforeseen contest, as well as taking several second places. Columbia is our greatest rival for the cup, but unless there are a number of scattered prizes we have every hope at present of keeping it another year for ourselves. Our prospects are even better than last year's, and it would be a bitter disappointment indeed to be beaten...
...colleges of this country is fast dying out, and is giving way to a more just spirit of courtesy and friendly emulation. The obliteration of all differences of method is an end not at all to be desired, but the establishment of a firmer basis of agreement among all rival colleges cannot but result in good. There are one or two outcomes of the ordinary growth and experience of college faculties towards which all are tending; and one of these is the elective system, in some form or other...
Several club tables are organizing rival nines...
Yale seems to be much disgruntled over the growing success of Harvard's and Princeton's "funny" papers and her own sterility in this line. The Yale Lit. says, enviously : "We cannot, of course, ever hope to rival Harvard in this respect. She is too excruciatingly funny. But in our own way we may in time be able to publish something worthy of the name of wit. This hope, we think, is justified by the News' Wednesday supplement and the "log" items in the Courant and Record." That strange delusion that Yale men cherish that the News supplements are really...
...queries" at the library we noticed six "questions" in the same hand-writing. That man wants to become a rival of the "College Index...