Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second annual contest in speaking for the Lee Wade II prizes will be held in Sanders Theatre on March 30. The contest is open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors. Each contestant will speak James Rodman Drake's "Address to the American Flag." The prizes will be $25, $15, and $10. All who wish to enter the competition should give their names to Mr. C. W. Chenoweth on Tuesday, March 14, between 2 and 5 o'clock...
...York, N. Y., Mar. 5.--Princeton was awarded the first place in the third annual Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest held in Carnegie Hall last night, Penn. State securing honorable mention. This decision gives Princeton possession for one year of the silver loving cup presented by the University Glee Club of New York, which is to become the property of the club winning the meet three times. The University Glee Club and Dartmouth have also each won the contest one year...
...singing of each of the six competing clubs, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Penn. State, and Princeton, was strikingly uniform and the performance of each was highly praiseworthy. Each club sang Edward MacDowell's famous "War Song," this piece forming the competitive feature of the contest, and in addition, a light piece, and a college selection...
...judges of the contest were Mr. Victor Herbert, conductor and composer, Mr. John Hyatt Brewer, conductor of the Apollo Club of Brooklyn, and Mr. Louis Koernnienick, conductor of the Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York...
...attracted the greatest number of people were the outdoor events. These consisted of dashes and long runs on skis and snow-shoes, of obstacle races on snowshoes, of ski-jumping, both exhibitory and competitive, of hockey games, and of skating races. That year, strange to say, the ski-jumping contest was won by a student from a college in Florida...