Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Camera Club has challenged Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Columbia to an intercollegiate photographic contest to take place some time during February or March. Each college will submit about fifty pictures which will be judged by a competent committee and the award will be made to the college whose work shows the most merit. First and second prizes will also be given, as well as honorable mention to individual pictures...
...similar contest was held between Harvard and Pennsylvania two years ago, the success of which has warranted an intercollegiate competition on the same general plan...
...while there have been all these changes there has been no change in the character of the Harvard man. Methods of instruction may come and methods of instruction may go, but the college boy with the beauty of God on his face goes on forever. It is always a contest between brute courage and manliness on the one side, and on the other, meanness, flabbiness, and cowardice. The result of the contest is to determine which boy goes to Heaven and which to the bad--or to the devil...
...management of the University football team has decided not to hold a kicking contest this fall...
...game itself was remarkable in some ways. The spectacle of two teams, either of which had the ability to gain through the other, ending the contest with such a one-sided score was certainly unusual. It is also seldom that a strong team is scored upon by a long run, yet there was one run of 74 yards straight through the line for a touchdown, and there were others similarly executed which, if not stopped by the man in the backfield, would have had the same result. With the exception of these plays and a few punts of extraordinary length...