Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more benefit to the students than any other form of athletics, because they are of such a character that a very large number of students can, tentatively at least, take part in them. We are frank to say that, if the heavier and more exciting forms of athletic contest should threaten to kill out interest in the lighter and more quiet forms, we should be opposed to them. Athletics, like everything else, ought to be for the many and not for the few. We believe that the opportunities which the Athletic Association afford for training are of the very best...
Rule IV. No student shall be permitted to participate in any athletic contest until he shall have procured a certificate of physical fitness issued by the director of physical culture, in conformity with the rules hereafter to be adopted by the Faculty Conference Committee...
...varsity teams in the same year. This would bring two good results. It certainly would tend to reduce undue exactions of athletics upon the time and energy of individuals, and it would increase the general utility of athletics. The more men who can be induced to train for athletic contest, the better will be the University. Now if the chances of making 'varsity teams were increased, the number of candidates would increase in much the same proportion. Moreover, this regulation would have no small results if the past is to be taken as an indication of the future...
...Worcester Athletic Club also will have a meeting in March, at which there is to be an open team race for the championship of New England. It is not probable that Harvard will enter a team, as the rules of competition which will govern the contest, and the size of the track, are not altogether satisfactory...
...faculty at Cornell are making an effort to forbid any university team entering a contest outside of Ithaca...