Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting contest is being carried on at the fair in the Madison Square Garden, New York. A large American flag is being balloted for by adherents of the various colleges. The college that has the most ballots cast for it wins the flag. Up to Friday of last week Yale was ahead, when Harvard who was second picked up and at last accounts stood several ballots ahead of her rival. The price for each ballot is ten cents, and the contest will close on Saturday next...
...greatest praise is due to the B. A. A. crew for the magnificent contest which they put up. Nothing could have been finer than the way in which they answered Harvard's spurt in the last half mile and kept it up until they had won by ten feet...
...third annual contest of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association will be held, as usual, this year in New York. Hitherto Harvard and Columbia have been the only two colleges represented and Harvard has gained the victory each time. At the meeting of the officers after the last contest the secretary was instructed to write to the authorities at West Point and Annapolis, inviting them to send teams to the annual contest. It was also decided to ask Princeton, Cornell and Pennsylvania to take part. There is known to be a great deal of interest in fencing at Cornell...
...first half describes the appearance in the court of King Arthur, at Yuletide, of a stalwart knight all clad in green, who challenges the assembled knights to a strange contest. The green knight offers to allow any man present to deal him a blow with his axe on condition that he (the green knight) may deal a return blow a twelvemonth hence at the Green Chapel. Sir Gawain is the only knight valiant enough to accept the challenge. Accordingly, with a ponderous blow he chops off the green knight's head. But the latter picks his head up again...
...club voted to hold a contest this year to choose a representative to the state contest...