Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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RULE I. AMATEURS.No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public contest, either individually or as a member of any team, who, either before or after entering the University, shall have engaged for money in any athletic competition, whether for a stake or money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary emolument or gain whatever, with...
RULE II. BONA FIDE STUDENTS.No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public contest, either individually or as a member of any team, unless he is, or intends to be throughout a college year, a bona fide member of the University, taking a full year's work...
...student who is dropped for neglect of his studies into a lower class shall be debarred from taking part in any intercollegiate contest until the end of the next academic year or until he is permitted by the faculty to rejoin his class...
...debating clubs from which the Princeton speakers will be chosen are Whig and Clio Hall. Two trial debates will be held in February. The winners of the first debate will meet in a final contest from which Princeton's representatives will be chosen. Princeton men have for a long time been anxious to take part in debates with Harvard and Yale, and now that they have been admitted, they may be expected to make a strong showing...
...cares very little about the name of a scrub team so long as it limits itself to playing unimportant teams. But when a few men who call themselves the University team play against the accredited representatives of another college and the impression is given to the public that the contest is between the two colleges, the University has a right to demand that the team which bears its name shall be really representative...