Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last issue of "Bothsides" for the year which appeared yesterday contains; "The Inter-State Oratorical Contest of the Middle West," by H. D. Smith, Beloit College 1902, also accounts, outlines, criticisms and bibliographies of the following debates: "The Harvard-Yale Debate on Regulation of Railroad Rates," by W. M. Shohl '06; "The Michigan-Chicago Debate on the Integrity of the Chinese Empire," by H. P. Chandler '01, Secretary to the President of the University of Chicago; "The Nebraska-Iowa Debate on the Fourteenth Amendment-Suffrage-Restitution and Representation," by Professor M. M. Fogg of the University of Nebraska...
...Americans, he said, have two distinct and natural advantages; the mental qualities developed by your ancestors' contest with man and taming of nature, as well as the social equality which, in this country, requires the professional man to "kow-two" to no one. You lack neither stimulus nor opportunity; you are radiant with the success of modern materialism. The world is the mining engineer's oyster, to be opened with the weapon of skilled intelligence...
...University tennis team decisively defeated Yale Saturday on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club by a score of 8 matches to 1. By winning five of the six matches in singles the University team had scored enough points to win the contest before commencing the matches in doubles, all three of which were won by Harvard...
...results of the football kicking contest held yesterday afternoon in the Stadium were satisfactory, although a high wind prevented very good performances. In events for men who had practised at least three times a week since April 24 cups were awarded as follows: Punting--tied for first place, H. Foster '07 and R.E. Sperry '06. Distance, 45.7 yds. This tie will be settled next week. Place-kicking--J.L. Derby '08. Drop-kicking--J.L. Derby '08. Goal-kicking--J. Cunniff...
...both competitions there will be punting, place-kicking, drop-kicking and goal-kicking. The winners will be chosen on the basis of form, speed, accuracy and distance, and in the regular contest cups will be awarded. The judges will be Coach Reid, P. D. Haughton '99, R. P. Kernan '03, F. L. Burnett '01, L.J. Daly '03 and C. B. Marshall...