Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seriously, the custom which the competing cars have lately fallen into of driving slowly so as to "hold" the cars of the rival line, is little less than an outrage. If this state of things which now prevails is allowed to continue we should not be surprised to see a line of cars lying at anchor on Main street at some not distant day, or, worse yet, the drivers may receive instructions to drive backwards. No wonder that an L road is prayed for by Harvard...
...expect that the railroad war thus inaugurated will rage with ever increasing fierceness until its results shall far exceed anything yet known in the history of Cambridge travelling? What can be more obvious than that the Cambridge road will promptly reduce its fares to three cents, and that the rival lines will continue to "see each other and go one lower" until both roads begin to offer premiums to secure traffic? It may be that smoking cars will be provided, with the intention of securing the student patronage, and it may be that - but why go on? Both lines will...
...many of the elective courses to freshmen brought numbers of the incoming class to Cambridge last week. Eighty-nine enters Harvard with just twice as many men as are enrolled in the freshman class at Yale. Her athletic record should be proportionally more brilliant than that of her rival class at New Haven. Let the upperclassmen, then, with all due sobriety and moderation, drink success to the class from which the college expects so much...
...June 20th, the rival crews were started. Harvard took the water first, rowing 41 strokes to the minute to Columbia's 34. In the first hundred yards Harvard opened clear water between the shells, and at the half mile flag Columbia was three lengths to the rear. In going to the mile flag the Harvard stroke dropped to 39, 38, and finally to 34, while Columbia hit up the stroke to 36, 37 and 38. At the mile and a half buoy Harvard was eight lengths to the good, and was rowing in splendid form, while Columbia had begun...
...four lengths behind. The crews were pulling 40 and 42 respectively. At the mile and a half flag Harvard was timed at 36 strokes to the minute, and Yale at 40, yet Yale had fallen still further to the rear, and was now seven lengths astern of her rival. A few minutes later and the two-mile flags were left behind, Harvard making the distance in 12m. 6s.; Yale in 12m. 48s. The race was now half over, and the crimson oars were rising and falling ten good lengths in advance of the Yale boat. Penrose now quickened his stroke...