Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think he is a very able fellow to be earning money in such ways, but to any candid mind he is a swindler. I speak of this simply to warn freshmen against going to seminars indiscriminately. Let me add that I am not in any way a rival to seminar givers, nor have I ever been to them for help; I give my facts entirely as some friends gave them to me, out of their own recent experience...
...President's report, an abstract of which we publish to-day, shows a most gratifying progress and growth in every department. Harvard is no longer a college, and truly deserves its title of University, while it bids fair to rival the older institutions of Europe. One part of the report is most pleasing to all the friends of a really liberal education. When Greek and Latin were made elective, it was predicted that they would be neglected for the other studies, but such has not been the case. Greek has, indeed, lost somewhat, as it is less essential...
...scheming politician, goes to the convention at Saratoga, and, at the time when his presence is most needed to strengthen his chance for nomination, yields to the fascinations of a fair conspirator and goes off on an excursion, only to came back too late and find that his rival has secured the coveted prize. The story is fairly well written, but the plot is by no means...
...passage in Kidnapped." Now it happened that my illiterate friend had merely "skimmed" Kidnapped two years before. What did the criticism tell him? Even if he had read Kidnapped how was he to know whether his theme seemed to the instructor a feeble imitation or a dangerous rival of Mr. Stevenson? And certainly the comment told absolutely nothing about the theme regarded as a description...
...contests, Harvard has been a most formidable rival. She has had advantages in point of numbers, and it is only by virtue of our greater enthusiasm and harder work that we have won.- Yale News...