Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Memorial ought to be an ideal dining-hall. It needs only better board to make it so. If the Foxcroft Club had half as commodious or attractive quarters, it would then be a formidable rival in popularity to the older institution and there would be some justification for keeping up the payment of "head-money." It is a fact that for fifteen or twenty cents one can order any day a much better lunch at Foxcroft than is usually served at Memorial...
...opposing pitchers are probably the strongest college players who have occupied the box this year, and the contest between them was very close. Paine was more effective than his rival, but did not have particularly good control and was rather erratic in his fielding during the early part of the game. In the first inning he gave two bases on balls and made a wild pitch and a wild throw to first. These errors, with two sacrifice hits, gave Princeton a lead which Harvard could not overcome. From this point until the tenth inning Paine's pitching was faultless...
...maid of lowly birth. As Farina is the ward of the Grand Inquisitor of Seville, it becomes necessary for Don Manuel to ask the consent of that pompous functionary before pressing his suit. The Inquisitor, however, has designs of a nuptial nature on Farina himself, and to put his rival out of the way he shows Don Manuel a prenuptial contract made with a fierce Moorish chieftain when the present Alcayde was but an infant. By this agreement Don Manuel is to wed the Moorish prince Kazooka on attaining his majority, and it is on his twenty-first birthday that...
...prepared at Andover. While there he was a member of the Philomatheon Society, and later was prominent in forming a rival debating club called "The Forum." He represented the latter club in the first debate held against the Philomatheon Society, and the Forum was awarded the decision...
ITHACA, N. Y., April 30.- Cornell was worsted by her old rival, the University of Vermont, today, in a contest which was close and exciting from start to finish...