Word: vies
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sale-A 56-inch bicycle, formerly owned vie J. E. Mellen. Enquire at 19 Thayer...
...ministers on their way to the Conference. A number of students came aboard, and took possession of the aisle of the car and some seats, and for ten or fifteen minutes showed themselves off in the most unenviable manner. Some of them were oddly dressed, and all seemed to vie with each other in bad behavior. They made frequent allusions to the Conference, called each other brother, and sang caricatures on Methodist songs at our revivals. I remember one of the stanzas or couplets...
Each college seems to vie with the others in its strivings after idiocy in compounding its private cheer. All of their cheers begin with the "rah, rah, rah," and are distinguished from one another by different additions. The students of Columbia repeat each letter of the name of their college, and seem to think they have done well in convincing those who hear their revolting cheet that they can spell at least one word correctly. The Williams students finish their cheer with the words "Willyums, yams, yums," and the students...
Football and Matthew Arnold vie with each other in the amount of space devoted to them in almost all of our exchanges. The Princetonian devotes most of its energies to foot-ball, with an occasional remark on our distinguished literary visitor, while some of our other exchanges reverse matters and show a literary spirit to predominate over the physical. [Brunonian...
...Yale Record comes out in a new and tasteful cover. The Record agrees with the Crimson and Advocate in their theory of college journalism, and thinks "It is, too, rather self-possessed in a student to wish to vie with Herbert Spencer, or something of the kind." (!) A sentiment entirely commendable if not very lucid...