Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second annual Lee Wade II Prize speaking contest will be held in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The speakers will each recite James Rodman Drake's "Address to the American Flag." A musical program will be rendered, including selections by the University Glee Club...
...anything like an undisputed lead in this field, but they are not to be taken too seriously. The thing of importance is the thorough, sane, and intelligent manner in which these eighteen undergraduates discuss the important questions of the day,--in a style far different from the "oratorical" contests of the Middle West. There are persons who think debating is in some mysterious way a corrupter of the youth who take part in it. Such persons take it too seriously. It is certainly an intellectual contest which sharpens the wits and whets interest in current questions...
...best record, having won the championship three times, while Yale and Princeton have each won it once. Last year the victory went to Yale, for both of her teams gained decisions on the subject of an increase in armament. The debate this evening will be the twenty-fifth annual contest with Yale and the twenty-first with Princeton...
...furnish an incentive to these men is to provide some formal contest. The cups offer this incentive to everybody. The ultimate aim of the H. A. A. is to have one for every event. So far there are four; but none of these is given for field events. Here is an opportunity for other graduates who have an active concern for Harvard track teams to show material evidence...
...University gymnastic team will meet Brown in Providence this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The meet promises to be exceedingly close, as last year's contest resulted in a victory for the University by a small margin. Furthermore, considering the tied result with Amherst and the fact that the latter have defeated Brown this year, Captain Campbell's team faces perhaps the most difficult problem of the season...