Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Easter season has been a good beginning of an exciting base ball year. Added to the excellence of the nines is the fact that for the first time since the season of 1888-89, games have been arranged between all three colleges. If everything else goes well the present contest promises to be one of the most exciting in the history of intercollegiate base ball...
...contest for second place in the fencing having been postponed from the Winter Meeting came off Friday night at the rooms of the Harvard Fencing Club. It was between those only who had been defeated by the winner, Delong, and of these Richardson '94 retired leaving J. R. Oliver '94 and C. N. Barney M.S. Oliver won the bout and the cup by a score of 5 to 4. Mr. Rondelle acted as referee...
...holding secret session, they parted without settling upon anything definite. As the games last year were held in Cambridge, it was Yale's turn to set the place. The constitution under which the games are held, provides definitely for the date of the games, by saying that "the annual contest shall be held on the afternoon, two weeks before the last Saturday in May," thereby setting the games for this year on May 14. With the date thus fixed it lay with the Yale to choose a place. As the meeting was held in secret, nothing definite can be said...
...very probable that the Columbia-Harvard freshman race will become an inter-collegiate rowing contest...
...entry was C. R. Bardeen '93, whose work compared very favorably with McNear's. Moore was certainly entitled to first place. His giant swings, forward and back, ending with fly aways, were the features of the event and were executed with skill and grace. At the close of the contest, Bardeen, McNear and Macallister '93 gave a very difficult combination...