Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...above even the potent influences of the football scores. Her recent athletic defeats are attributed (I do not say rightly, but speak only of opinions among college men) in part to developments in intercollegiate athletics outside the control of her students, and in part to her unwillingness to rival other universities by admitting the evils of professionalism in her management. She can afford, indeed, to let it be supposed that her prestige rests on more important achievements than muscular prowess-pleasant as that prowess is to her friends...
Some of the adjacent preparatory schools have taken up the game. A large number of candidates from the Cambridge Manual Training and English High Schools have enlisted to form rival teams, and the movement is spreading to other schools...
...They cause Harvard and Yale to be regarded as the Cambridge and Oxford of America.- (1) Not in accord with Harvard's policy.- (b) By avoiding permanent relations this false notion would be removed-(1) Athletics would become more normal.- (c) Harvard comes to consider Yale as her peculiar rival and "bosom enemy."- (1) Less interest in recent Princeton game than in last Yale game, though as great a defeat.- (d) Such arrangements tend unfairly to raise the literary estimate of Yale,- (1) Yale gains in literary prestige by defeating Harvard...
...third century of performances, will add a new opera to its repertoire next week, Sir Julius Benedict's "The Lily of Killarney." This is a musical version of the drama, "The Colleen Bawn," whose thrilling story is adapted admirably to lyrical expression. The heiress, Ann Chute, has a rival in Eily O'Connor, the Colleen Bawn. Myles na Coppaleen, the peasant lover of Eily, is devoted to her although knowing her to be the wife of another, Hardress Cregan. The latter would desert her and wed Ann Chute in order to raise the mortgage on his estate. The only solution...
...third century of performances, will add a new opera to its repertoire next week, Sir Julius Benedict's "The Lily of Killarney." This is a musical version of the drama, "The Colleen Bawn," whose thrilling story is adapted admirably to lyrical expression. The heiress, Ann Chute, has a rival in Eily O'Connor, the Colleen Bawn. Myles na Coppaleen, the peasant lover of Eily, is devoted to her although knowing her to be the wife of another, Hardress Cregan. The latter would desert her and wed Ann Chute in order to raise the mortgage on his estate. The only solution...