Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speakers for the University at which the debate is held have always been thought to have an advantage over their opponent. It only remains for those who attend tonight to be so impartial in their demonstrations that the visitors may think Cambridge as fair a place for the contest as any neutral ground...
...Yale debate is now but a few days off, and the men chosen to represent Harvard have almost completed their long and careful preparation for the contest. On this occasion, as in former years, the three speakers have been greatly helped in their work by the alternate, who has not only studied the question with them, but has also spent considerable time in speaking against them on the other side of the question. It seems only just that alternates should receive more general recognition than they have in former years, and it would be a step in the right direction...
...shot putting contest Saturday was postponed on account of the bad weather...
MOTT HAVEN.- The fourth shot-putting contest will be held out-doors...
...poor showing was made in the third shot-putting contest yesterday. Only four men competed. E. H. Clark L. S. made the longest put, 37 ft. 1-2 in. F. Shaw '97 was second. Distance...