Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...complete. Goethe stands before. erect, proud, and stately; Schiller a little taller is looking out into the distance while Goethe holds in his hand a laurel crown which he seems to think no man has a better right than himself to place upon the head of Schiller his nearest rival and dearest friend...
...calling to Princeton of other than regular students; and of liar-based on the conduct of playing Ames-goes up on all sides. And we want to know how much there really is in it. Later there is a mass meeting of Harvard, preconcerted and encouraged by Princeton's rival, Yale, in which proposition is made to withdraw from the foot ball league at once, and which ends luckily in the withdrawal of Harvard, to take place at the end of the season, and Princeton is held up to the scorn of all true sons of Harvard...
...communications deserve especial attention, as they throw some light on Harvard athletics. The first maintains that "we are not inferior to Yale in athletics," but that study receives more attention here than at our rival college, and that therefore "the real cause of our lack of superiority in athletics (not our inferiority) is the greater earnestness and higher kind of work done here." The second takes a different ground and attributes our ill success to our social system. It argues that the athletics of the freshman class have their interests turned aside by their election to a sophomore society, "which...
...interested themselves in scientific pursuits, all combine to lay strong foundations for scientific activity. Here are laboratories affording the most admirable opportunities for all kinds of advanced investigation. A university founded among such surroundings, and equipped with an able body of professors, might reasonably be expected in time to rival the University of Berlin, the first university in the world...
...Wednesday, the Irishmen were unable to play, a matter of regret to the cricket authorities at Harvard, not only because such a fixture would have helped the game a great deal in the University, but because it would have considerably improved Harvard's chances of meeting Yale, its great rival, in an annual match...