Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college to subscribe enough to pay the running expenses of the crews. And this difficulty has been increased by the fact that from '70 to '82 Princeton put but one crew on the water that made even a respectable showing; in the twelve years Princeton won only one intercollegiate contest, and that by default...
...entries for the First Regiment games closed Saturday and the names of sixty-three Harvard men are among them. The majority of the Harvard runners will compete for the first time in an open athletic contest. The results of the different events will show something of the athletic powers of the new men and their efforts will be watched with unusual interest. The men are training on the outdoor, board track and the time made in the different practice heats is taken...
...hoped that this awakened interest marks a return of our enthusiasm for the long neglected art of public speaking, and that the joint debates of this year are only the beginning of an annual series. The friends of the two universities have long desired some such contest. It is well that there be a rivalry on this side of the college life as well as in athletics; that there be the same sort of stimulus to intellectual that there is to physical activity...
...third century victory over the Romans, and in 1829 the game there is described as played between parishes and as a kind of "cross-country" affair, with more than a thousand players. "Broken shins, broken heads, torn coats, and lost hats are among the minor accidents of this fearful contest." The eyewitness of this game goes on to say, "the crowd is encouraged by respectable persons attached to each party, who take a surprising interest in the result of the day's sport...
...business, and the House proceeds to the election of a speaker. This election, however, is merely a form, for the speaker has long since ceased to be chosen by the House. The selection of this important officer lies with the caucus of the party which holds the majority. No contest for the nomination of speaker has been so hotly contested as that of the present year...