Word: contest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Page, University of Pennsylvania, the champion high jumper, has accepted an offer from the Manhattan Athletic Club to go abroad this summer as a representative of that organization. He will start early in June, and will contest on July 2 for the championship of England in the national sports. - Yale News...
...will be allowed to contest unless he has been examined by Dr. Sargent...
...Davenport, '90, are both good mile runners. Davenport is a strong man, and runs in good form; he is sure to make a fast mile. Hale, '88, may train for this event after the class races. In the mile walk, Wright, L. S., Semis. '87, and Zinkeisen, '89, will contest...
...Whig Hall junior essay contest, W. M. Irvine took first prize and W. H. Forsyeth, second. The officers of the tennis association were elected several weeks ago, T. N. McCarter is president. The new Princetonian Board took charge of the paper with the issue of April 22, the first number of volume twelve. The paper will appear with a new heading before long. The New England Association held its annual banquet at the close of last term, and this banquet was a greater success than its predecessors. Dr. Bancroft was drawn from Andover, Prof. Tufts from Exeter and Prof. Gallager...
Further, a contest that within the last few years has had a place in the programme of most athletic meetings is even more directly one in which the ancients took part. The "tug-of-war" is quite a modern institution, but is very nearly the same as a Grecian trial of strength, which appears to have been arranged in two ways, in one of which the only difference between it and the present "tug-of-war" is that fewer persons took part in it, and that they stood up instead of partly sitting as they do now. In the other...