Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last meet of the Yale Gymnastic Association was held last Wednesday evening and was a great success. The college record for the standing high jump was broken by nearly three inches by L. P. Sheldon '96, who cleared the bar at five feet. At the close of the contest G. L. Buist, Jr., '96, was announced the College Gymnast, having made a total of twenty-four points in eight contests. Handsome silver cups were awarded to the winners of the first and second places in the contests...
...Harvard Union Wins in a Close and Interesting Contest...
...debate as a whole was remarkably vigorous and spirited and was far more entertaining than an ordinary intercollegiate contest. The speakers followed each other with such rapidity, so many different points of view were taken, and such originality was displayed in the different arguments that the interest of the audience remained undiminished to the end. The speaking was characterized by perhaps too little following out of a consecutive line of argument by speakers on the same side and by useless citation of individual instances and comparisons, together with a tendency towards the popular stump speech on the part of several...
...judges. Mayor Bancroft, Mr. Ernest L. Conant and Mr. George P. Baker, were but a short time in making their decision which was announced by Mayor Bancroft as being in favor of the Harvard Union. The debate was very close and, as the initial contest of the two clubs, was in every way an unquestionable success...
...have taken part in Harvard-Yale debates, namely, Bull, Ringwalt, Duniway, Apsey, Hutton, Stone and E. H. Warren, and the remaining speakers represent the best ability of their respective organizations, it is reasonable to expect a debate equal to, if not surpassing in interest and excitement, an ordinary intercollegiate contest...