Word: vies
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...severe system of training such as is now in vogue at present. They frequently made excursions in their boats, and occasionally were accompanied by ladies. But in 1851 they were taken by surprise in this way, - Yale had heard that Harvard owned an eight-oared barge, and wishing to vie with her on the water sent a challenge to row on Lake Winnipiseogee. Harvard accepted, the old "Oneida" was brought into requisition, eight men, who had never rowed together but a half-dozen times before, were picked out to represent Harvard. The race took place on August 3. The "Oneida...
BOSTON THEATRE. - Mme. Judic in "La Vie Parisienne...
...undergraduates. They are not the small, insignificant scribbling books used to jot down the casual remarks of an instructor on some of the time-worn topics; but are in most cases noble quartos in which goes the very essence of the latest researches by our learned professors, who vie with each other to lay the "newest thing" before their attentive pupils...
...only this but every class takes particular pains to surpass the work of those before them, so that the result is more and more gratifying every year. The range of the book is also much larger than with us, embracing such organizations as private club tables, whose members vie with one another to produce the most laughable or unique pictures of the club,-published of course at the expense of the members. Private tennis clubs are also included as well as the occupants of each room of the college dormitories, a very useful feature...
...United States as yet possesses but few colleges, but it is fair to suppose that in the near fature, our seminaries of learning win vie with the foremost institutions of Europe...