Word: rivals
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...take the place of the interclass system, it was decided to organize two rival upperclass debating clubs, which should draw their membership from the three upper classes and from the graduate schools. It is planned to have each of the clubs carry on a system of debates similar to that conducted in the Forum last year; and in addition, there will be a series of inter-club debates, for which special club teams will be chosen. At the last of these inter-club debates, for which the teams will be especially coached, the Pasteur Medal will be given...
...question, is in no way an official organ, but expresses the views of individual contributors. For the temper of the article cannot represent the attitude of any considerable number of graduates, and certainly is foreign to the feelings or the undergraduates toward our chief and most respected athletic rival...
...affirmative. The difficulty in the matter seems to me to be not so much with reference to the existence of applause, as to the kind of applause and its application. The elaborate system of cheering which is now carried to its logical conclusion by the complete division of the rival camps of spectators into consecutive or continuous vocal bands, is only one illustration of the national tendency to do nothing by halves, which has resulted in many highly organized enterprises in business, politics and education. This ingenious mechanism of special cheering-sections, including elaborate rehearsals of songs and cries, appeals...
Klapproth, an exuberant provincial, during a visit to Berlin desires to enjoy an adventure which in the telling will outclass the experiences of a rival sight-seer in his native town. He hits upon the idea of visiting a sanitarium for persons mentally unbalanced and promises to start a nephew of his in business if he will arrange for such an adventure. The nephew resolves upon the rash expedient of taking his uncle to the Pension Scholler, a private and eminently sane boarding house...
From Mr. H. G. Curtis '65, the Museum has received a gift of forty seven bronze reproductions of Italian and French Medals of the Renaissance. These Medals rival in their artistic finish the finest coins of the ancients. The chief Italian and the chief French master in works of this class, Vittore Pisano, and Dupre, are represented in this collection. Among the portraits by these and other medalists are those of Alfonzo V of Aragon, Lionello D'Este of Ferrara, Filippe Maria, Visconti of Milan, Leon Battista Alberti, Cosimo de Medici and Lorenzo de Medici. The medals...