Word: rival
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...affairs of the University Athletic Club have advanced very favorably. The club has leased the Racquet club house at Twenty-sixth St. and Sixth Ave., and will move in some time before May 1. This will leave the rival University Athletic Association to secure without opposition the Berkeley Athletic property at Forty-fourth Street. The Athletic Club has a membership already of over one hundred, and this will soon be doubled. The council of twenty which will have control of the club is now made up and is as follows: George A. Adee. Yale, president; Edward D. Appleton, Trinity; Collin...
...other rooms which may be used for lounging and reading, while the facilities for a restaurant and kitchen are sufficient to meet the demands of the club for the present. It is especially stated, however, that it is designed to make this a vigorous athletic association and not a rival among purely social clubs...
...Free ships would save us $140,000,000 yearly. - (b) Would stimulate our ship yards. - (c) The example of Norway and Germany a wise one to follow. - (d) The carrying trade employs fifty times more men than the shipbuilding industry; Kelley, p. 31. - (e) With "free ships" we should rival England on the sea; Atlantic Mon., vol. 47, p. 174. - (f) Free ships would stimulate American invention, in building and handling ships...
...parties arose at about the same time and for about the same purpose. While the Wah Hoo Society is smaller in point of number and for that reason seemingly more select, yet the Hoodoos feel themselves, in the personnel of their club, in every way the equals of their rivals. The constitutions of the two clubs are very similar; there are three clauses in each, the first determining the names, the second setting forth the idea that they shall be perpetual in their existence, and the third prescribing that each shall fight to the death for the extermination...
...natives of the little town, who stood about in evident wonder on the station platform, it doubtless seemed very strange to see so many men, dressed in blue and pink gowns, rushing about, and talking so earnestly, and to hear, on a quiet Sunday morning, the yells of the rival colleges as the two trains drew rapidly away from each other. Supper was served at Barstow...