Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman fencing team was defeated by the Columbia Freshmen last Saturday evening in a close and well fought contest at Earle Hall, Columbia University, by a score of 5 bouts to 4. Although weakened by having to use a substitute, the Harvard fencers made a creditable showing against a team which has won seven consecutive matches this season. Several of the bouts were very close, extra periods being necessary for a decision...
...University lacrosse team left Cambridge for its Southern trip on Friday night, April 15, and on Saturday afternoon played its first game of the season with Johns Hopkins on Maryland Oval, Baltimore. Johns Hopkins won by a score of 12 to 2, in a hard and clean contest...
...preliminary trials to select the speakers to compete for the Boylston Prizes in elocution will be held in Sanders Theatre, on Wednesday morning, May 6, at 9 o'clock. Ten or twelve men will be retained to speak at the final contest which will be in Sanders Theatre, on Thursday, May 12. Five prizes will be awarded: two first of $60 each, and three second of $40 each...
...Athletic Committee last night moved to add the clause, "and no student of Harvard University who has played on any 'semi-professional' or on any so-called 'summer' baseball nine shall represent Harvard University in any public athletic contest until he has received special permission from the Committee," to Article 2, Rule 5 of the athletic regulations which previously read as follows: "No student shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public athletic contest, either individually or as a member of any team, who, either before or since entering the University, shall have engaged for money...
...Harvard squad is composed of H. W. Holmes 1G., captain. A. Tyng '04, W. MacLeod '05, W. F. Law '07, R. S. Earle 2L. The first three men have fenced in every contest this year, but Law and Earle will be given a chance against some of the teams tonight. The other teams will be composed as follows...