Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Horizontal bar contest, F. R. Lehlback...
Long horse contest, F. A. Lehlback...
...managers of the intercollegiate chess tournament which is to take place in New York during the vacation have issued a large poster announcing the tournament and stating a price of admission. Here is an admirable effort to give to a contest of brains a prominence not unlike that of an athletic game. While it will not attract as much popular interest as the more spectacular event, it is well deserving of support and Harvard men who are in New York at the time will do well to give their representatives the encouragement of their presence...
...second annual debate between Yale and Princeton was held at Princeton on Friday evening. Yale won the contest by a majority vote of the judges...
...Germantown, Pa. In freshman year he won in Whig Hall first prize in debate and second in essay. In sophomore year he was Washington's Birthday debater from his class. Junior year he won first prize in essay in hall, and this year second in the senior oratorical contest...