Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...after the Christmas vacation, lasting until the end of March. Meanwhile the best players of the squad will be formed into a regular Freshman team, but at all times men may either be moved up from the dormitory team or down from the class team. The dormitory teams will contest among themselves for the dormitory basketball title, to count in the All-Around Interdormitory series, and may also play teams made up of upperclassmen...
...morning and afternoon sessions will be devoted to business and inspirational programs, and the National Oratorical Contest will occupy the evening. This contest is a culmination of a two years' series of smaller contests. About 1500 students wrote and delivered orations in 290 local college and university contests. The winners of these locals competed again in state contests, and the victors in these 70 state contests met in seven interstate trials. The prize orators of these interstates will compete at Des Moines for national honors...
...planned to make the contest a cross-country race with as many "legs" as there are contestants entered. Thus if Princeton, Yale, and the University were entered, the race would extend from Cambridge to New Haven to Princeton. There will be an admission fee for each entry in the race...
France, England, Italy, and the Scandinavian countries have already started preparations for the training of their competitors. Judging from these preliminary trials, the accepted opinion in America that the United States will have an easy contest in the track events is by no means warranted...
Yale displayed her traditional grit by coming back after the first half and forcing the play into-Harvard's territory throughout the rest of the game. And there was something stirring about the way the Blue rooters stayed and cheered and sang and cheered again long after the contest had ended...