Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...following our pride rather than our good sense. There are still comparatively few men who are going in for forestry. These are more than provided for by the schools at Biltmore, Cornell and New Haven, and for various reasons we should find it hard to rival what Yale, helped by the Pinchot family, is doing already. I cannot see, therefore, how Harvard can profitably pretend to do more than she is really doing now--let anyone study anything which he thinks will help him when he gets to a professional school. HENRY JAMES...
Atlantic Monthly--"Two Tendencies in Modern Music," by D. G. Mason '95; "Lincoln's Rival," by W. G. Brown '91; "Universal Eminence," by A. C. Lane...
Three years ago the debating interests of Harvard were divided between two rival organizations and were practically without an administrative head. The Harvard Union had been organized in 1880, with W. R. Thayer '81 as its first president, and was originally intended to be like the unions of Cambridge and Oxford, the nucleus of a university club. In 1881 a difference in internal matters arose in the Union and two independent organizations, the New Harvard Union and the Wendell Phillips Club arose. The former soon adopted the old name, the Harvard Union; the Wendell Phillips Club later changed its name...
...report to the next General Court the probable cost of a project which, if in can be carried out will give to Boston a beautiful water park, a feature of attractiveness superior to anything of its kind to be found on the American Continent. Such a park, which will rival the finest water park of Europe, the famous Alster Basin of Hamburg, can be laid out in the Back Bay at a comparatively little expense...
...opportunities in debating for an upper-classman or Sophomore three years ago were limited to college courses unless he succeeded in making the old "Union" or "Forum," the rival debating societies for the three upper classes. In the latter case, he was usually unable to debate before the club more than three or four times during the year. Furthermore, the rivalry between the clubs seldom showed itself in inter-club debates...