Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Peirce Chase of Milton was voted Vice-President by a decisive number of points over his nearest rival, Moses Williams Jr. Chase entered the University from Exeter. He was center on last year's championship University team and also played on his Freshman ice squad. Last year he won a letter in baseball as a substitute infielder. In his Freshman year, he was on the hockey team, the baseball squad, the Jubilee Committee, and was a dormitory football manager...
...Ever since the foundation of the Republic, 15 years ago last October 10th, the problem of unification has been a thorn in the flesh of patriotic Chinese. China has been divided laterally by the Progressive and Conservative factions, sectionally by rival generals, each with his sphere of influence, his private ambitions, and his protestations of 'loyalty to the Constitution'. Each militarist has made the national chaos an excuse for 'punitive expeditions' against his opponents, while foreign powers have seen in China's disorder a sound reason for declining to treat her as an equal in the family of nations...
Following the first Yale contest of the year, between the rival Freshmen harriers yesterday, the champion Junior class football teams will face the Yale Sophomores, winners of the Eli class title at 3 o'clock this afternoon on the Freshman field...
...tentative schedule has been drawn up, including five dual meets with rival institutions prior to the semi-finals of the Northern Division of the Fencing League to be held at New Haven March 18 and 19. Yale, Dartmouth, M. I. T. and Columbia will be the University's opponent's in this contest. The winning team will fence at the Intercollegiate Meet at New York April 1 and 2. Yale, with an exceedingly, strong veteran team will be the favorite to represent the Northern Division of the League...
Herrin, Ill., a town long kippered in a bloody solution of mining feuds, bootleg wars, Klan activities, last week developed some new reactions. Two gangs, one run by a man named Carl Shelton, the other by a rival bootlegger, Charles Birger, took a dislike to each other and pursued their differences with machine gun attacks, armored motor cars, ambuscades, profanity and murder. The first mute witness to law and order in Herrin was a human hand which reached stiffly for the sky, emerging from the shallows of the Big Saline river near Equality...