Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...view of the approaching Harvard-Yale contest the debating clubs of the graduate departments have been more than usually active, and the preliminary contests will soon be held. The final competition will occur immediately after the April recess. A Thatcher prize of $75 will be awarded to that member of the academical department who most distinguishes himself at this latter contest. From the outcome of the Harvard-Princeton debate it is realized that Yale will have to make strenuous efforts if her representatives are to be victorious in the coming contest with Harvard, which will determine the supremacy in debating...
...faculty of the freshman class have decided to grant the request of the class navy for a race with the University of Wisconsin. The probable date of the contest is Thursday, June 18, the day after the close of the examinations, and the course will be on Lake Saltonstall, about six miles from New Haven...
...HAVEN, Conn., Mar. 10.- Eighteen members of the Yale gymnastic team left to night for Orange, N. J., where they will contest with Princeton tomorrow. They went under the charge of George Buist, captain. The Yale men will be entertained by the Princeton men after the contest...
...tournament is soon to be held at the Fencing Club to select a third member for the team that is to compete for the junior team championship in New York the first week in May. Every team in this championship contest must be made up of men who have never won medals in public competition, and, as A. G. Thacher '97 is a medal man, some one must be chosen to take his place with J. P. Parker '96 and J. E. Hoffman '96. This same man will probably be substitute for the intercollegiate team also...
...efforts to beat Harvard this year in debating, the one event in which she has regularly been successful. This enthusiasm at Yale must be met by an equal enthusiasm here in Cambridge. We must not rest nor relax our training for a moment until we have won the final contest of the year...