Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...extremely limited and, at that, unreliable season and at a time of the year when athletic diversions are at a discount in the University. In the face of this disadvantage, the newly formed Harvard team has gone to work with good spirit and though beaten in the first contest with Brown, has kept hard at work and now hopes to be able to make a better if not a victorious showing against its more experienced and better organized rival. The game yesterday was certainly encouraging. The team deserves credit for its good work and success in the game of Thursday...
...regatta which takes place in the second week of July. this decision will not bring about so noticeable a boating feature as a race with one of the English universities would have done, but it is the best substitute and it is hoped will lead to an international university contest in some future year. Mr. Cook has been in town for several days, leaving Saturday evening, and has worked diligently with the candidates. He has a very good knowledge of the Henley course and of English strokes, and it is his purpose not to change the principle of the Yale...
...been the intention of the Yale University Boat Club to arrange a contest with this year's winner of the Oxford-Cambridge University race, but owing to the impossibility of fixing upon a date which would be convenient to both, the Y. U. B. C. has decided to enter a crew in the Henley Royal Regatta of 1896. The regatta will take place in the second week of July, and Yale's crew from now on will devote all its efforts in preparing for this contest...
...night of February 7, and will be preceded by the Glee Club concert in Alexander Hall. An unusually large number of preliminary dance cards has been issued and the attendance promises to be greater than that for many years past. On the night preceding the promenade, the Baird contest in oratory disputation and poetry will be held in examination. This contest is open to some members of the senior class selected for ability in writing, and the main interest in it is due to the fact that the winner of the oratorical contest is usually appointed to be valedictorian...
...this sport at Harvard. The fact that the team has this year been selected in an open competition gives it a representative character which it has not had before. It is greatly to be hoped, therefore, that the intercollegiate games into which it now enters will be well contested from beginning to end. Where the name of the University is associated with a team, the latter has a responsibility which it must not forget. The University, in turn, will look with much interest on the contest and hope for a successful outcome...