Word: vied
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taken. The students will be graduates of other colleges, and will go to Clark University to take advanced courses in mental and physical science, instead of going to German universities as is the present custom. The object is thus to establish an American university which will be able to vie with European ones...
...next meeting of the Conference Francaise tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, Mr. C. H. C. Wright will read a paper on "La Vie de College en France...
...tour in every respect satisfied the strongest hopes of all the members. Before houses crowded with the most enthusiastic audiences, the clubs did themselves great credit, and deserve the heartiest thanks of the college for so admirably representing it. The Harvard clubs at the different cities seemed to vie with one another in the manner of receiving their guests, and nothing was wanting in the way of hospitality...
...length ahead, which it increased to three lengths at the finish. For the first half mile or so, Harvard rowed about thirty five strokes to the minute, but during the latter part of the race Storrow slowed down to thirty or thirty-one. The Bradfords and Crescents seemed to vie with each other as to who could row the faster stroke, the number per minute ranging from forty to forty-five...
...having college organizations furnish music at the winter meetings is rapidly growing in popularity. Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale have all adopted this plan, and the brass bands of those colleges are taking measures to make its execution successful. We have a band that can undoubtedly vie with that of any other college; why, then, should we not adopt this plan also? It certainly would be a very enjoyable feature, and would add much to the pleasure of the meetings. We hear from our brass band only too seldom. It is true that we may be rather late...