Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...trophy room. The cup was presented in 1881 by a number of graduates of the University of Pennsylvania to be competed for annually by "undergraduate elevens of the Intercollegiate Cricket Association." Columbia was then a member but has since dropped out, leaving pennsylvania, Haverford and Harvard to contest for the trophy...
...contest between Harvard University and the City of Cambridge over the taxation of College property has finally been settled by the report of the Committee on Assessments which has declared in favor of the University. The trouble arose from the "Williamstown decision," rendered in February, 1897; by which all college property occupied by professors paying rental to the Corporation could be taxed. Starting with this concession, the city undertook to tax all College property during the years 1897, 1898, and 1899. For the first two years the College paid all assessments in full, but at the same time registered...
...following questions have been given out for the Junior Wranglers' debates: May 3--"Resolved, That in a contest between McKinley and Dewey for the presidency, all good citizens should support McKinley." Heilprin's camp has the affirmative and Foster's the negative. May 17--"Resolved, That President McKinley's civil service order of May 29, 1899, was a backward step in civil service reform." Foster's camp has the affirmative, Heilprin's the negative...
...unusual amount of interest has been shown this year in the Boylston Prize speaking contest, thirty-five or forty men having already submitted their names...
...Saturday's play in the duplicate whist contest Harvard make a net gain of 17 -- 12 in the afternoon and five in the evening. Harvard played a straight long suit game and Yale played an irregular lead, showing strength in trumps. The total tricks were: Harvard 47, Yale 30. Harvard now holds a record of six victories during the last six years. The players were: Harvard--A. J. Halle 2L., E. D. Fullerton 2L., H. H. Fox '00, A. R. Campbell 1L., M. Hyman 1L., M. G. Beaman 1L., E. S. Foster '01, and N. S. Kelly 2L. Yale...