Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the Rugby Club two full games and half of another to find a combination that would beat Princeton. They finally hit upon it in the second half of Saturday's contest in New Jersey, when the team came up with two tries to beat the Tigers...
...squad will wear bright new sweaters of hoary fleece. A public address system will explain the nuances of the contest. And a corps of girls will distribute programs to the multitude...
...last two doubles matches provided the closest competition. In the number two contest Reese and Bramhall lost in three sets, as their smashing net game couldn't overcome the steadiness of their rivals. But in the number three doubles, the net game of Bacon and Hatton was good enough to beat Bowdoin's Tiny Taussig and Dick...
...scramble for the flowers came under severe attack late in the century, and was finally abolished in 1899. The Tree Exercises remained in watered down form until late in the 1920s. For a time, the tree was the scene of unofficial ceremonies built around a dirty story contest; women were strictly barred, but many of them used to sneak late the lower floors of Yard buildings and listen in through half-closed windows. This too was finally forbidden...
...held at all. One result of this dispute was the temporary replacement of the Tree Exercises with the Harvard-Yale baseball game. The game, which is now apparently a permanent fixture, was seen glumly as a poor substitute for the more exciting custom. In 1882, when the baseball contest was again proposed, it was decried on the rather illogical ground that rain had spoiled the first Class Day game...