Word: contest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Times Current Events Prize Contest will be held this year on February 15 and 16, it was recently announced by Professor E. D. Ellis, of Mt. Holyoke College, chairman of the committee in charge of this annual intercollegiate contest. The examination has been set ahead two months this year in order to avoid conflict with the regular college work...
...Walter Hastings will be lighted. One might become sentimental on the possibilities of Harvard-Yale Law School rivalry in many fields. One might visualize the joy of encounter on the touch-gridiron, the squash court, the five o'clock floor, besides' the promised meeting in marble halls for contest in oratory. Such is the flight of fancy. But one can hardly expect that so great a contradiction to the present tenets of the Law School will be allowed. Indeed, if one ponders the matter, there comes a sudden dawning that the debate is hardly an outside activity; that here...
...addition, it was also reported, Professor W. R. Vance of the Yale Law School, will enter into debate with E. A. Hausman 3L on a question of compulsory insurance. The subject of this contest of words will be: "Resolved, That compulsory insurance be enacted." Professor Vance will support the proposition and Hausman, a graduate of Princeton, will oppose this stand. Hausman has been called the undefeated intercollegiate debating champion of America...
...season of 1874 was destined to leave a deep impression upon American football, for during this year occurred the first Harvard-McGill game, the first contest of intercollegiate Rugby played in this country and the contest which led directly to the present intercollegiate game. The teams met on Jarvis Field, May 14, eleven men participating on each side. Following this year, often termed the most "momentous" of football history, Harvard met on the playing field with McGill and other Canadian universities for a number of years, previous to the first engagement with Yale at the beginning of the last quarter...
...game is memorable for several reasons: in this contest was scored by Harvard its first touchdown against Yale in the Stadium; in this contest was tallied the largest score Harvard ever made against Yale; in this contest was established perhaps the highest individual score for one game ever made on an Eastern gridiron, captain E.W. Mahan '16 checking off unaided, 29 of Harvard's 41 points...