Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...decided last year that some other method must be devised by which more men could receive instruction, and be given a chance to row and to row in races. The Weld Boat Club, with a membership of about 400, was already in existence, and prospering. But it had no rival. There were the Weld class crews, but there was no really hard competition excepting among themselves. Under these circumstances the Newell Boat Club was founded, partly to relieve the great pressure at the Weld, but more especially to provide a strong rival for the Weld here at Harvard...
Debating at Harvard has undergone such rapid changes during the past three years that few of the features which existed in the old system are still extant. At the beginning of this period there was no University Debating Club--but there were two rival organizations, the Harvard Union and the Forum, which elected their members from all the different classes. But interest in these clubs began to flag, and as the result of causes which had been at work for several years, the two were combined in the spring of 1898, into a University Debating Club. Debates were carried...