Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Stone, Oliver, Hancock and DeLodg of the Fencing Club, are the men who will represent Harvard at the B. A. A. fencing contest...
...will be rowed over the usual course in the Charles River basin. The start is from the Longwood Bridge straight down to the Harvard Bridge, thence with a slight turn to the Union Boat Club, a few feet this side of which is the finish line. An extremely close contest is looked for, as the crews are to all appearances more evenly matched than last year...
...been received, many of them from prominent athletes. G. C. Taylor, who holds the world's record for the two-mile bicycle race, has entered, and it is probable that E. C. Moen, J. P. Lee, W. Dohrn, the great middle distance man, Downs and other noted athletes will contest...
...track athletic question with Yale is at last settled, and Harvard has under the existing circumstances done, we think, the best thing. The negotiations had been dragging on for a long time; and as Yale still refused to held the contest as early as May 14, Harvard was obliged to accept the date of Friday May 20 or else abandon altogether the chance of holding the games this year. It was a choice between leaving Cambridge during the week, and breaking seriously into the important period of college work, or permitting a blow to fall on athletics which the graduates...
Harvard has accepted the date proposed by Yale for the track athletic contest, and accordingly it will be held on the Yale field...