Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year's club has started in with zeal and enthusiasm. The standard of debating has been generally good, and the members are earnest and sincere in their efforts to do well, and to return the defeat of last year. When it was first proposed to hold an intercollegiate debating contest, we looked upon the plan with disfavor, and it must be confessed that the first debate did not tend to lessen this feeling materially, though considering their inexperience, the Harvard speakers did themselves credit. It seemed to us then as it seems to us now that intercollegiate debate demands...
...final contest to choose Princeton's representatives in the Harvard-Princeton debate took place last week. There was an unusual attendance of the students and great enthusiasm was shown. The following men were chosen to represent Princeton: Frederick W. Loetscher '96, Iowa; Robert M. McElroy '96, Mo.; Herbert Ure '96, N. J. Edward W. Hamilton '96 was selected to serve as alternate. The success of the contest and the enthusiasm manifested makes it more and more evident that there is a growing interest in debate among the student body in general and it only remains to allow those who struggle...
...members realize that they must do their utmost in preparing for the coming contest, since the Yale freshmen now have the prestige of the victory of last year, and since it is probable that the freshmen of Harvard and Yale will not meet again in a joint debate. At Yale the competition for places on the team is open to all freshmen. The Harvard Freshman Debating Club has not, as yet, decided to extend the competition to any but members, but all members of ninety-nine interested in debating are urged to join before the selection of speakers...
...rejecting of the proposed three mile run will certainly give considerable satisfaction to the spectators of the annual athletic contest, if not to the athletes themselves. A very long race is at best not an exciting contest to watch. The pace is necessarily slow when compared even with the mile run, and before many laps are passed the race generally changes to a procession. Then a three mile race is altogether too great a strain to put upon college athletes, most of whom are under twenty-one years of age. There are probably few men in the University...
...Hall and Jones have decided not to accept the privilege of playing for the championship, the contest for the championship, the contest for that will lie between the winners of the tournament and Denison and Booth. That contest may not be played off until after the Yale match on March...