Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...financial investment the outlook is not so encouraging. It is rather difficult to see how people will pay to see a second nine from Yale College play with some outside club when it is perfectly easy to witness a game between the regular nine and a rival college team for the same price...
...very probable that within a week the field will be ready for use. Jarvis, being on a slightly higher level, is already in fair condition and was used yesterday for the first time. This is a late spring and our teams are heavily handicapped thereby - since all the rival colleges have been practicing out of doors for some time. We are informed that it is within the memory of man (i.e., Tom O'Hara) when Jarvis was in daily use on the fifth day of March - more than two weeks earlier than is the case this year...
...Philadelphia Press, in speaking of the founding of the new university at Worcester, Massachusetts, says: "Massachusetts is to have a new college that will rival Harvard. Some of the best foot-ball players in the country have already been engaged, and other places in the faculty will be filled as quickly as possible...
...leading editorial in to-day's "Advocate" is well written and the several points of which it treats are well taken. We wish to sustain our sister paper in the opinions expressed. It is our belief that much of the ill feeling which is shown between the rival colleges is due more to misrepresentation and misunderstanding than to any other cause. We have tried to keep our columns free from the continual petty wrangling seen in many of our smaller exchanges and which is useful only to the managing-editor for filling space. In this attempt to stop unnecessary debating...
...Advocate." "A Fool's Revenge" is hardly a story, for there is no plot; but the author has taken a series of incidents, hackneyed by long use in college productions - a railroad train, a rescue, two falls and a young lady, with a handsome military hero and stupid rival - and has by clever arrangement made a very interesting sketch. The denouement is particularly happy, and by it the reader's attention is held to the last. We wonder, by the way, what perron in Monaco the hero found so familiar...