Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There will be a shot putting contest in February similar to the one which was held last year...
...registration committee of the A. A. U. last night declared the Yale Basket Ball Team disqualified from taking part in amateur contest owing to their having played the 4th Suffolk Company Team which was disqualified several weeks...
...joint debate between the Freshman and Sophomore debating clubs was held last evening in Sever 11, and resulted in a victory for the Freshman speakers, after a close and excellent contest. The question debated was: "Resolved, That United States Senators should be elected by direct vote of the people." The speakers were as follows: Freshmen, affirmative-A. G. Alley, Jr., M. T. Hall, and I. W. Scott, with W. E. Stillwell as alternate; Sophomores, negative-B. Brooks, A. L. Richards and O. D. Evans, with E. E. Sargent as alternate. The judges were Professor S. M. Macvane, Mr. Richard Cobb...
...inter-club contest of last evening the new departure in Harvard debating amply justified itself. The victors are to be most heartily congratulated. Though representative of a Freshman club and comparatively inexperienced, they have yet shown ability superior to their older rivals and illustrative of the cooperation and hearty support of their fellows...
...challenges the Cornell University Boat Club to row a four mile, eight oared boat race at New London, Conn., the race to be rowed one week to ten days after our annual race with Harvard, next June. It would be agreeable to us to have you join our dual contest with Harvard and make it a triangular, if satisfactory to them...