Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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RULE 1. AMATEURS.No student shall be allowed to represent Harvard University or the University of Pennsylvania in any public athletic contest, either individually or as a member of any team, who either before or since entering the University shall have engaged for money in any athletic competition, whether for a stake, or a money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of a livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport...
...hard hitting and poor fielding. Last year the first game between the two nines with the same pitchers in the box was very close, four to three and a crowd of some five hundred students turned out in expectation of another good game. All hopes for such a contest were destroyed in the first inning when, after two men out, Harvard made four hits one of them a three-bagger, and aided by a few timely errors, rolled up six runs. From that point on all uncertainty as to the result was gone. Dartmouth turned all her energies toward securing...
There is talk of holding an oratorical contest in Chicago June 20 at which seventy colleges will be represented...
...recent borough election in Princeton the students were urged by the faculty to take an active part in local politics. It was a contest between the students and the politicians, resulting in a victory for the students, the independent candidate for Mayor being elected by a large majority...
...this present happy-go-lucky, good-natured sort of playing is allowed. This tendency, which is sure to result disastrously, should be put down at once and the men made to feel that while they are practicing they are not supposed to be amusing themselves, but training for a contest which will require all the skill and experience which they can possibly gain in the time allotted to them. If the men do not realize this now, it devolves on the freshman captain to see that his charge is imbued with the proper spirit. The college looks...