Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the chilly, highbrow attitude of The Crimson in scoring "the silly antics of mascots," is it not human to have a pet, to cherish some symbolic creature? And does not the horse-play of the rival mascots and their keepers afford the spectators much good, wholesome amusement in the midst of a tense athletic struggle when opposing bloods are apt to become warm? Poor Harvard has not even the memory of a nice, docile, little bear like "Touchdown" whose presence was so helpful in 1915 when the Big Red Team administered a drubbing to the Crimson eleven...
...this excellent institution for no very obvious reason, lapsed into discard? Such an organization performs manifold services. For developing ability in clear and forceful expression, it has no rival. It would be useful as a clearing-house of undergraduate and graduate, even faculty, opinion. But principally the value of this sort of organization lies in forcing young men to think about the problems they will soon, be called on to face. In the Oxford Union the great issues of the nineteenth century were first tussled over. The Debating Union can fulfill a real function; as a center of learning...
...notion; and that anyone in Jericho could tell them more than the News announced was unlikely. They resigned themselves, waited. Next afternoon, earlier than usual, the man walked along the wagon-road to the village, bought his customary copy of the News, and, in addition, a copy of a rival gum-chewers' sheetlet known to the scornful as the Evening Pornographic, but to its readers simply as the Graphic. With trembling fingers, he scuffled the pages of these publications, looking for news about the devastated city...
From comparison of their respective scores, the two rival teams are very evenly matched, with perhaps a slight edge on the side of Yale. The two teams have faced but one common opponent, Andover, who defeated the Crimson by a close score, but were decisively beaten by Yale. Both teams have lost two games, Yale having fallen before Dewitt Clinton and Peddle, while the Crimson succumbed to the attack of Andover and Hebron Academy...
...that the Pierian Sodality Orchestra is rapidly on the decline. This I know is not the case--in either case this matter would seem not to be within the jurisdiction of a "musical critic." It would seem that he draws his conclusion from the absurd caption "unskilled instrumentalists cannot rival professionals"--a statement the fallacy of which in connection with the Pierian Orchestra, made up of students, would at once be apparent to even an "adenoidial moron." Furthermore, were the Pierian Sodality in any such state of affairs, as Mr. Thomson describes, the Music Department of this University, under whose...