Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion of that team's journey to Princeton presents a favorable opportunity to give the CRIMSON's most sincere good wishes to the team, its leader, and its coaches upon the eve of an encounter with an old and worthy rival. Harvard sends its team to Princeton with the hope and the expectation that this trip will be as successful as the last...
Other familiar fables are recognized: the rabbit who slew a lion by showing him his rival in a well (on the principle of Aesop's dog-and-bone tale) ; the gluttonous heron that was strangled by a crab; the mice that gnawed elephants free; the bird with the golden dung (goose of golden eggs) ; the ass in the tiger skin. Translator Ryder's performance is best judged by inspection of the neat economy of some of the interlarded jingles...
Neither the University nor the Freshman soccer team was a match for its week-end rival, the University losing to a fast team from Pennsylvania 4 to 1, while the 1929 aggregation was routed by their Springfield College rivals...
...young lady of thirteen who raised Brooklyn from the realm of antiquated humor to the Utopia of poesy now has a rival. Another young lady of thirteen, this time from Lynn has proclaimed her muse. Singing not of tenements and traffic but of field mice and clocks of loons, the shoe city Sappho strikes a pastoral note truly becoming in one of her age. One stanza from her "Autumn" shows how nature has fired her girlish genius. "Flocks of loons and coots and mallows Flying southward by the score...
...Today's game was typical of all Dartmouth Harvard games. It was hard-fought but cleancut, and excellent sports, manship was displayed by the rival elevens...