Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...contest between Harvard College and the city of Cambridge on taxing College property has not by any means, ended with the decision of the supreme court, by which the College property was declared exempt. The board of assessors and others in the city government, who hold the view that some of the property of the College ought to be taxed, are preparing a serious movement to bring about what they consider a more equitable basis of taxation...
...were left with no choice but war or surrender. If their country had been less valuable and had been less in the way of dominion from Cape to Cairo, we should have heard less about their ignorance and conservatism. The story is as old as Naboth's vineyard. The contest is at bottom one for empire on the one side for independence on the other. The disproportion of resources between the two contestants reminds one of the Persians and Greeks. Our own ancestors had infinitely smaller odds to face when they rose in revolt. The doctrine that we should sympathize...
Professor Wendell says: "My sympathies are with the English, because I believe that in the struggle for political existence inevitably to come, the real contest is between what may broadly be called the Common Law of England--a system of which our own government is a direct development--and the ideals of law and government, which have dominated continental Europe. In the end, the failure of England would mean disaster to the ideals of law and of morality which are the foundations of our own national existence...
...York on December 22. Resolutions were passed to admit Pennsylvania to membership, to change the present scoring system to the English method and to adopt the four-year limit rule. The date for holding the annual championship was changed from fall to spring, so that the next contest will not take place until the spring...