Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game with Chicago on Saturday. Smith filled the tackle hole left by the graduation of last year's captain, Spellman, and stopped every play that came through his side of the line. Keefer, who formerly played for the University of Michigan, proved a sensation in the backfield promising to rival Pollard, the greatest back in Brown football history. He ran rampant through the Colby line during the short time that Coach Robinson's substitutions allowed him to stay in the game...
According to Professor Woods, Dr. Mei was delayed in reaching his port of departure by the fighting going on among rival factions in Southern China. He finally arrived in the besieged city of Shanghai only to encounter difficulty in cashing the draft he had received from the University, and which was intended to defray his expenses to Cambridge. Three boats sailed for America before Dr. Mei finally succeeded in cashing his check, and he is now reported on his way back to Cambridge...
...advertiser. He meets with indifferent success, as it is his first attack on a golf course, but he does have a chance to make a favorable impression on the daughter. Everything is straightened out at the end with the help of Jones' much improved golf game, and of a rival soup magnate who likes William's advertising plans...
...first, which explains the designation of the Freshman number as primarily mercenary: In "Kismet and Advice" too there is something genial in the bantering tone, something genuine, however unsound, in the philosophy. After all it is the function of the Advocate to express undergraduate ideas rather than to rival professional magazines. That is excuse enough for the very patronizing book review. It doesn't excuse, however, such unintelligible verse as the Sonnet. One always hesitates to confess missing the point of a poem obviously subtle for fear that like the folk in the fable one isn't worthy...
...Square, patronage at the college dining hall has been falling off to a large extent of late. In an effort to counteract this, Comptroller F. S. Mead, '87, has made many changes in the service, and from now on it is expected that Memorial Hall will prove a formidable rival of the Harvard Square restaurants...