Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purpose by John Osborne Sargent, of the class of 1830, will be awarded in one or more prizes for the best metrical version or versions (of sufficient merit) of a lyric poem of Horace. The whole amount may be awarded, at the discretion of the judges, to the competitor; or it may be divided among not more than three competitors in sums apportioned to the merits of their respective versions...
...that are without presidents, and yet almost every day one reads that a new institution has been founded by some millionaire, who wishes in some way to perpetuate his fame and influence among educated men. The Stanford University, with its endowment of $3,500,000, will soon be a competitor for still another president, and there is no knowing how many more of these figureheads or financial agents may be required before the end of the year. The truth is that there is no better place for killing first class men than to make them presidents...
With to-day's issue, the CRIMSON enters upon its eighth volume. Established in the spring of 1882 with prospects anything but flattering, dull times, small circulation, a formidable competitor in the old Echo, then in its third year, the paper has overcome all obstacles, has steadily increased in size and circulation, until now it contains in the course of a year more reading matter than any college publication in the world, and its circulation is commensurate with its size...
...Harvard then met Amherst for the second time and won a fourth victory, the score standing 15 to 5. In the following week, the nine played its first championship game with Princeton, increasing its lead by another victory. Score 15 to 6. Dartmouth was the next competitor to acknowledge the superior ability of Harvard, losing a game by 5 to 12. The seventh victory was won when Princeton succumbed on Holmes with 4 runs to Harvard's 13. Dartmouth came to Cambridge for the second game, but fared no better than Princeton, as the Crimson defeated the Green...
Yale has been invited by the University of Pennsylvania to enter as a competitor for the Childs cup, in the place of Princeton. The Harvard race will require so much time and work from Yale that she has deemed it impossible to accept...