Word: contest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chess team representing Harvard lead a team from Princeton who finished second to the University in the last annual tournament of the H-Y-P-W. College Chess League, 2 to 1 after an afternoon session Saturday. Although originally it was planned to contest this first match of this year's tournament on five boards, due to the non-appearance of one of the Tiger men, only four were used...
Fair weather and moderately calm water upstream on the Charles yesterday, ushered in an afternoon of activity for all University oarsmen, three races being completed in as many classes. The feature event was the mile and three quarters contest between crews B, C, and D on the winding course between the Arsenal Bridge and Gerry's Landing. Crew D, stroked by James Lawrence '29, swept to a clear cut victory over the other two boats, winning from crew C with a length of open water margin and from crew B by six lengths...
Four men were awarded prizes last night at the finals of the Lee Wade and Boylston speaking contest held in Sanders Theatre. These winners were Edward Dinsmore Wheeler '28, Orazio Ercole Vaccaro '29, Robert Clifton Weaver '29, and Abbot Peterson...
...following men also spoke in the contest: F. E. Shea '29, on the "Reply to Corry" by Henry Grattan; G. A. Weller '29 on the Medea of Euripides: T. N. Stensland '28 on "Nominating John Sherman" by James A. Garfield; A. D. Howlett '28, on "Plea for the Old South Church" by Wendell Phillips; Theodore Hall '29, on "The Death of Socrates" by Plato; T. H. Eliot '28 on "The Mystic Trumpeter" by Walt Whitman...
...judges of the speaking contest were George Herbert Palmer '64, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, and I. L. Winter '86, Professor Emeritus of Public Speaking, many years in charge of the contest, and himself a former winner...