Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...heats of the 100-yard dash disclosed an unexpected rival for first place in Craig of Michigan. He won his heat from Dawbarn of Princeton in 10 seconds, the same time made by Foster in the second heat. Kelley of Williams shut out Hawley of Dartmouth, McArthur of Cornell, and Burch of Yale by taking third in the first heat. Minds of Pennsylvania and Gamble of Princeton were the others to qualify, keeping Geary of Fordham and Blass of Cornell out of the finals. The anxiously awaited race between Foster of Harvard and Dawbarn of Princeton in the final heat...
...Speakers' Club has never been intended as a rival of the Dramatic Club, as you seem to suggest, but was formed by men interested in various forms of platform speaking and oral expression. Some of the members are interested in debating, others along the lines of the Boylston Competition, others in dramatic interpretation with reference to good elocution and vocalization, while there are still others who simply want practice in expressing their thoughts before an audience with clearness and conciseness. The arrangements committee in outlining the work of the club has been forced to keep these various interests in mind...
...Dramatic Club will probably produce three one-act plays, and all aspirants for dramatic honors will have an opportunity to compete for places in them. This club gives all undergraduates a chance to write plays and act in them, and yet as soon as it is well started a rival organization makes its appearance. The result will probably be that instead of there being one financially successful production, there will be two unsuccessful ones. Without in the least implying that the Speakers' Club is incapable of presenting a good play, we urge the members to give up their plan...
...forced to compete on this unequal footing with their adversaries. However, as long as the team is representing Harvard, even under these unfavorable auspices, the least the undergraduates can do is to go in force to the Gymnasium tonight, and encourage them to a victory over our old rival...
...very complete collection of early English text-books will be on exhibition today and tomorrow in the Treasure Room of Gore Hall. The collection, which is without a rival in this country, belongs to Mr. G. A. Plimpton of Boston. Among the notable specimens are: Wilson's Rhetoriche and Logiche, Hart's Orthographie, the first English edition of Record's Arithmetic, the Dialogues of Corderius, and other school books used in the latter part of the sixteenth century. Another interesting volume is a copy of Melanchthon's Greek Grammar. This was the reformer's own copy of the work...