Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...needs of the club. The club; which aims "to increase interest and efficiency in oral expression and to discover and develop representative opinion concerning current problems," is composed of undergraduates and graduates. The open University Forums are under the management of its Executive Committee. An annual extemporaneous speaking contest is held by the club for a prize each spring. Fortnightly dinners followed by discussion alternating with fortnightly addresses by prominent men are held throughout the year...
...other three teams on the University Schedule draw strong opponents for today with the exception of Virginia, which will meet the Richmond eleven at Charlottesville, Va. This contest was chosen as the most suitable to come between the contests with Harvard and Yale. The first real test for Penn. State will come today when that eleven faces the University of Pennsylvania. The latter, on early season records, should succeed in winning. Brown faces Amherst in what should prove a close game, for last year's contest resulted...
Harvard lined up Saturday without two of her most valuable me, Mahan and Gilman. With only a few substitutions the eleven fought its way through the contest, awaiting its opportunity to break the scoreless tie. Coach Haughton saw fit to disregard his custom of rushing in substitutes in the second half, and so he left practically the original team intact to work out its own salvation...
Approximately 400 men compose the academic freshman class, at Yale while the same number has entered Sheffield. The annual rush between the sophomore and freshman classes resulted in a victory for the latter after an unusually long contest. This is the last year that the freshmen will be isolated from the rest of the undergraduates. Their present dormitories on York street will be abandoned for the new system whereby the freshmen will have Berkeley Oval, in the dormitories surrounding which the juniors now live...
...squad was divided into two teams which participated in a 7-innings contest. Team B defeating Team A 4 to 3. Numerous substitutions were made, practically everyone getting into the game. The two teams lined up at the start as follows...