Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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STRENGTH TEST.- The strength test contest closes April 29, not April 15 as previously announced...
...University officials towards the "Tree" exercises. They must be abandoned soon. '98 has a chance to be the head end of futurity or the tail-end of antiquity,- with the privilege of a choice. The two objections to the past exercises appear to be against the nature of the contest and the crowded condition of the enclosure...
...idea of ranging the nines as far as possible in order of excellence and constituting what reminds one of a spelling class contest, is a clever one. Under such an arrangement if any team retires after the series has begun, each of the others will simply move up a peg and the competition will continue as before. Moreover, the plan is so novel that it promises to prove an attraction in itself, and so help to make the series popular and increase its usefulness as a training school...
...strength test contest closes on April 15. All men intending to take the test are urged to do so as soon as possible in order to avoid conflicting appointments later...
STRENGTH TESTS.- The strength test contest closes on April 15. Dr. Sargent wishes all men intending to enter the contest to take their tests as soon as possible in order to avoid conflicts of appointments later...