Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...standard of the intercollegiates. Phillips Andover showed up surprisingly well and beat out Worcester Academy by two points. Finlay, a brother of Finlay '91, put the shot 39ft. 11in., and Laing ran a remarkably well-judged race in the mile, finishing far ahead of his nearest rival. The running of Bigelow and Burke, and Johnson's work with the hammer and in the broad jump were deserving of the highest praise. The summary...
London is to have a university that hopes to rival Oxford and Cambridge. All the preliminary details for its establishment have been arranged...
trary they might be the crews of a single university preparing to meet a common rival. It is certainly a most pleasing picture, and shows the true spirit of sportsmanship...
...present policy is to build a navy such as to rival that of any European power...
...widened its scope of business so as to include not only books but furniture, men's furnishings, tailoring, and, lately, shoe-repairing. It is today one of the leading cooperative stores of any description in this country, and is, beyond question, the foremost among college cooperative societies. Its nearest rival is the society at Yale and there, so far as can be learned, hardly more than one-third the total annual business is transacted. The society here is taken as a model the country over; constantly are letters of inquiry about methods received, and some of the more distinctively Harvard...