Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...material aid to the finances of the club, besides being in harmony with the sentiment of the University. Williams would probably fill the vacancy more acceptably than any other college. She is champion of the Intercollegiate League, has defeated Harvard and hence is very evidently the most worthy rival that the present members of the College League would be able to choose...
...college races in the United States. 'Boys will be boys' is a remark which enjoys a perennial popularity in all ages and all lands. The same may be said of the spies that are sent out by two colleges to note the proficiency and faults of the rival crew; it springs from boyishness more than anything else; it is the act of half-men who a few years earlier were reading dime novels, daubing their cheeks with red clay, and lassoing their elders and betters in the semblance of buffalo, or shooting each other with arrows, in the semblance...
...separate trains. When this plan was found to be impossible the roads were incorporated under one head. One of the first subjects for controversy was the lack of competition to aid the industrial interests of the country by lowering the rates. The only remedy was the organization of a rival road. This peace was often a disastrous one financially, as a town which could support one road reasonably well, would bankrupt two, because the duplication of expenses was not met by a corresponding duplication of traffic. Thus it was a hazardous thing for private enterprise to institute a parallel line...
...much to be deplored that our faculty looks with no lenient eye upon games with professional teams. Each one of our great rivals has this privilege and makes use of it to the utmost; and the benefit which they derive from these games is shown immediately by the marked improvement in their playing. It is a well-known fact that one can acquire more good and get more practice when one is beaten than when one is victorious. It is always better to play with a more powerful rival than it is to play such teams as our nine...
...attempt is being made to get Montague, Bishop's rival mind reader, to give a performance in Princeton...