Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final contest for the Boylston speaking prizes will be held in Sanders Theatre on May 13 at 8.15 o'clock. The program will be as follows...
...pride of Oksgptgmfp is in fine fettle, and boldly challenges all comers. The numerous games including a broom and spade contest, "piff the piffles," and other innovations especially invented for this evening are in readiness. The fifteen piece band is playing "Tipperary" in its sleep, and the committee is with difficulty restraining itself from the enticements of the free liquid refreshments which have been bought in abundant quantities...
...Advocate, if we may judge from Professor Meyer's outburst, has become the sinister agent behind new international bad blood. The Advocate recently held a small prize contest for undergraduate poets, which was won by a piece entitled "Gott Mit Uns." Professor Meyer, unfamiliar with conditions here, has hurriedly judged this poem to be a "violation of neutrality," and has taken it to be representative at once of the well-determined sentiments of the gentlemen who pronounced it good verse, of President Lowell, and of Harvard...
...Advocate selected "the war" as a fit subject for its contest doubtless because the war is at present a "live" topic, and one which might well summon the budding genius to his best. The judges, in picking out the prize poem, acted without reference to creed or country. Their business was simply to determine the best poem among the ten or fifteen submitted, judged as a poem. Because it was a good sonnet, and not because it was anti-German or anti-anything, "Gott Mit Uns" received the prize. "Dieu Avec Nous," written with equal skill, would have received equal...
...University of Virginia baseball team will face the University on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The contest should not prove a difficult one as there are only three veterans left from the team which the University defeated last year, 3 to 2. W. G. Garritt, Jr., '17 will start in the box for the University, though E. W. Mahan '16 may be used later in the game. C. E. Brickley '15 is leading at the bat for the University with an average of .333 out of 18 time...