Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Each man in the University delegation will be provided with a campaign hat with a red band in addition to American flags, torches and red fire. This parade will wind up the Republican campaign in Greater Boston and will rival the "Preparedness Parade" of last spring...
...desire for teams which will win, these things have led to absurd competition in expenditures. It is like the race for armaments. The argument is that no team can hope to win unless it can be provided with all high priced coaching, scouting, dieting and other paraphernalia that its rivals are getting. To the progressive development of that absurdity, as the Yale report wisely points out, there is no end in sight. The time has surely come, therefore, for our colleges to agree upon a scheme of retrenchment. The chief evil of intercollegiate athletics at the present time...
...This committee desires to call the attention of the corporation to the continually increasing competition for supremacy among rival universities, as exemplified in the employment of expensive staffs of coaches...
...often a matter of considerable doubt whether some of the arguments advanced in favor of this or that candidate are really expressions of opinion in its true sense. Do the condemnations of one Presidential nominee, or the eulogisms which we hear heaped (or heap ourselves) on his rival, arise in all instances from a mature judgment of both sides of the case? Do we not find ourselves holding opinions to which we are directed by emotional feeling rather than by careful reasoning...
...Gates was out of the line-up for two weeks because of injury, but has been playing for several days at left end. He is in reality a veteran, and started the Harvard game in the Stadium last year. Club Sheldon was the chief rival of Clinton Black for the captaincy, and was the best tackle at Yale last season. He will probably be unable to play the entire game tomorrow, Charles Taft being likely to be sent in the second half...