Word: contest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saturday about thirty students, in addition to the class in History 13, attended Dr. Hart's lecture on the present contest between the President and the Senate...
...with considerable surprise that the announcement of Dartmouth's withdrawal from the Inter-collegiate Association was received. By her withdrawal the association has lost a good club from its membership and the interest attached to the championship contest is decreased by just so much. To be sure, the Williams team will undoubtedly do good work, but they can hardly be expected to do as well as the team which has heretofore represented Dartmouth. From a selfish point of view we have reason to regard this change with favor, but the regret at losing the old and well-known club will...
...final bout of fencing between Lander, '86 and Isham, R. G. was won by Isham, 7 points to 2. This bout was hardly what it should have been, Isham's tactics being much the better suited to broad sword contest, since he depended more upon his strength than his skill to defeat his adversary...
...result of his work, that he is contributing to the general prosperity, and is making the lives of his fellow men happier, safer and more profitable to themselves. The pecuniary rewards of the profession are very good. Engineering is a working, growing and advancing profession. It offers contest, excitement, victory. Can a man ask more from fortune...
...This evening (Sept. 30, 1860) is the anniversary for the foot-ball fight between freshmen and other under-graduates; but the contest has grown so savage of late years that the faculty voted, July 2, to prohibit the encounter to night, and the undergraduates decided to have a closing service. Accordingly before night one of the express wagons was seen carrying a drum which was left at the end of the Cambridge Common. After tea the Delta and its vicinity was not thronged, as usual on the first Monday evening, with students in their most ragged attire and with spectators...