Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...chief interest in the races will be centered upon the contest between the two first crews, as they are to represent Harvard against Annapolis and Cornell in the latter part of this month...
...intercollegiate fencing matches have heretofore been held in New York, at the invitation of the New York Athletic Club. The present conference was proposed after the last intercollegiate contest and it was made possible by the kindness of Colonel R. M. Thompson '74, also a graduate of Annapolis, who has offered to the representatives the use of his private car for the trip...
...final contest for the Boylston prizes in elocution will take place this year in Sanders Theatre on Thursday, May 8. About a week before the final contest a preliminary trial of all the candidates will be held to select the men who shall compete in the finals. Usually from twelve to fifteen men are retained...
...Harvard rule is as follows: "No student shall be allowed to represent Harvard * * * who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument whatever, direct or indirect, with the single exception that he may have received from the college organization or from any permanent amateur association of which he was at the time a member, the amount by which the expenses necessarily incurred by him in representing his organization in athletic contests exceeded his ordinary expenses...
...University baseball team will play its first game of the season this afternoon with the University of Maine on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock. As neither team has yet played a game, their comparative strength cannot be accurately estimated, but a close contest is expected...