Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other two departments of the CRIMSON will begin a week from Monday. There are from six to eight positions on the news staff open to members of the class of 1918, about half of which will be filled this fall. All Sophomores who wish to enter this contest will report in the office on October 4 at 7 o'clock. The managing editor will then explain the candidates' duties, which will be mainly gathering University news. The competition requires no previous journalistic training, and furnishes one of the best opportunities for building up a wide and intimate knowledge...
...percentage system of last spring, which resulted in the playing of an unnecessary third game, the University will meet both Yale and Princeton for the best two out of three games. In addition to the game on the southern trip, the University will meet Georgetown in a return contest on Soldiers Field. Johns Hopkins and the University of Virginia will be new opponents on the 1916 southern trip...
...season was against Annapolis on the Severn during the April recess. The University won a rather easy victory in the fairly slow time of 6 minutes, 53 seconds for the Henley distance, crossing the line about three lengths ahead of the Navy boat. Between this race and the Cornell contest, much time was given to preparing for the latter event, although the New London regatta was always kept in mind as the real end of the season...
...Harvard and Yale takes place at Yale Field, New Haven, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. With Princeton eliminated, the series now on has an even greater significance than the usual clashes between Yale and the University; it will decide the intercollegiate baseball championship of the East. Tomorrow's contest on Soldiers Field will begin at 3.30 o'clock...
...contest today will see the testing of two different styles of college baseball. The marked characteristic of the Yale nine is a whirlwind attack and defense, in which the all-essential element is speed; the University's playng has been noted for conservatism--for playing the "safe" game. Yale has a team whose success has depended largely on individual play; the University nine has won its victories as a carefully coached aggregation having a thorough grounding in team-play...