Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next two bouts dropped the Naval Academy to third place, leaving the contest to Harvard and Columbia...
...away our chances of defeating Yale. We lost interest, relaxed our efforts, we were beaten, and we deserved to be beaten. If the spirit which has characterized the debating interests here from the time of the Princeton Debate continues, our representatives will as surely be defeated in the next contest as if the judges had already given the decision...
...college. He was fence orator in his freshman and sophomore years, a member of the sophomore German committee, and floor manager of the junior promenade. During a year or two he was a frequent contributor to the Yale "Lit," and last year won the Junior Exhibition Prize Speaking contest, which requires literary as well as oratorical ability. As chairman of the Ninety-six News Board, and in connection with his work as class deacon, he has had many addresses to make, and, while he has never represented Yale in debate before, he is known as a thoroughly earnest and forcible...
ITHACA, N. Y., April 30.- Cornell was worsted by her old rival, the University of Vermont, today, in a contest which was close and exciting from start to finish...
...annual Harvard-Yale debate comes off at New Haven tonight. Yale has been making extraordinary efforts this year to win and the contest is expected to be very close. Harvard has the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That a permanent court of arbitration should be established by the United States and Great Britain...