Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With Harvard's chances in athletics for this spring so uncertain, it is to be hoped that she will not be hampered by finding any member of any of the teams on probation. Whether probation takes him from active training merely, or from an important contest, no able athlete should incur it, however lightly he may count the penalty which he himself has to pay. We speak here only of the athlete, for it is not our purpose to lay down any of the general principles of common sense no less than of morality, which condemn the wholesale neglect...
Oxford won the 'varsity boat race with Cambridge Saturday by two and a quarter lengths. It was the fifty-second contest between the universities and was rowed over the regular course, from Putney to Mortlake, four and a half miles. There was the usual immense crowd along the Thames to see the race, and the river was crowded with all kinds of craft, but the arrangements for keeping the course clear were perfect...
Oxford has now won twenty-nine and Cambridge twenty-two races since the series began, the contest in 1877 resulting in a dead heat...
...Friday evening between the Harvard Union and the Prospect Union is being anticipated with considerable interest. The Prospect Union has chosen very representative speakers and the men from the Harvard Union have had considerable experience before in debating. There is every reason to expect a close and interesting contest. The question is: "Resolved, That labor organizations are prejudicial to the best interests of workingmen...
...Jones '96, has challenged E. Klein '95, for the handball championship of the University. The contest will take place this morning at nine o'clock in the Gymnasium cage...