Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...BROOKS SCHOOL, Cleveland, which promises to rival Exeter and the Boston Latin, dedicated its new school-building, December I, on which occasion Rev. Phillips Brooks delivered an address, and a letter from President Eliot was read. The school prepares for Harvard and Yale. The master is White, Harvard '70, and the assistants, Nash, Harvard '68; Roberts, Harvard '74; and Harding, Yale...
...three more strokes to the minute, with more throwing the head on, and omitting none of this year's swing and dash, and in a paper boat if it is really faster than a wooden one, there is no reason why Harvard, if she will let no rival outwork her this winter, should not again be in the first three, and this time at the end of the three which she longs...
...filled by the Pudding, and that of Orator to be filled by the Pi Eta. In each society there is an insignificant minority advancing a second candidate, but these minorities work for their candidates, and in the general election both minority nominees are elected by the votes of the rival society and non-society men. Such a case is not only possible but probable; mutual disappointment to the societies must result often from its use, and the election of men whom their own fellow-members in society consider inferior candidates certainly will not result in our being represented...
...should be the gainer in the fact that the wire-pulling is done by ever-changing cliques, taking their stand annually on very different class interests, and such as are demanded by the circumstances of their times, rather than by organized societies using an inherited duty of opposition to rival societies, whether or not in subservience to class interests...
...mind's eye we can see the Delaware swell, making his P. P. C. after the above-mentioned interview, and blighting the hopes of rival swains with a lavish display of "call cards, tinted rep, rose, lavender, stone, canary, or Nile green...