Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question of an international college boat race at the World's Fair has caused considerable comment from the press of the country, which with hardly an exception favors the admission of Cornell some way or other into the contest. It is stated that the winner of the Oxford Cambridge race would be unwilling to row the winner of the Harvard-Yale race, for by so doing the championship of the world would still remain unsettled, if Cornell chose to dispute the claim and insist upon rowing the English crew herself...
...Harvard-Yale debate are being completed in a most satisfactory fashion and there is every reason to expect that the debate will meet with good success. The introduction of judges will add a much greater interest to the debate, for it will then be more of an actual contest. The managers of the debate have shown good judgement in appealing to the support of graduate classes and it is pleasing to note the interest which graduates have evinced in the matter. The proposition to limit the competitors for the next debate to members of the Union is a commendable...
...contest: Gloucester A. C., vs. Acorn A. A., of Brooklyn...
...concurrent meeting of the faculties of both the academic and scientific departments at Yale last Wednesday, it was voted that the freshman class should be prohibited from engaging in any intercollegiate contest in base-ball during the season...
...remaining games in the interclass football contest for the championship and the Cuyler Cup at Princeton which were to have been played after Thanksgiving, have been postponed till spring...