Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Candidates were numerous for secretary and treasurer, H. S. Colton of Exeter, H. R. Storrs of the Roxbury Latin, A. G. Robinson of Andover, P. Warren of Cambridge, and B. Frothingham of Boston. Two ballots were taken without decisive result, but the contest was narrowed down on the third ballot to the two leading men. Storrs had 79 votes to 65 for Colton. With three times three for Storrs, the meeting broke up, and the men quietly dispersed without any show of disorder...
...finals in the Inter-Collegiate Tennis Tournament were played at New Haven yesterday. Harvard dropped out of the singles and the contest lay between Chace of Brown and Larned of Cornell, the latter winning by the following score...
...class at Holy Cross in '77, he has since achieved much success as a lawyer and orator. He made the speech of the evening at the last Democratic convention in Boston. What such men have to say concerning the attitude of college men on the pending national contest should be well worth hearing...
...wrest the cup from Harvard it will be necessary for the successful college to win more points than Harvard, since, according to the rules governing the contest the college possessing the cup retains it in case...
...Bowers, '92 (age 25), pitcher, has met and outpitched every College pitcher of note up to today. He comes from South Manchester, Conn., where he pitched on the local Nine for several years. Last summer he pitched for the Brattleboro Nine which won the championship in a spirited dual contest of fifteen games with the Northampton Club...