Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first week after the spring vacation, the time and place to be announced later. The students will speak, not their own compositions, but selections from English, Greek, or Latin authors; the proportion in English is to be at least two out of three. Nothing spoken at the final contest in 1912 or 1913 will be accepted. The list of speeches in those two years which are now banned may be had by applying to Dean Briggs...
...University association football team will meet Cornell on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. This is the first game which the University team has had in the intercollegiate series and the second contest for Cornell, the latter having lost to Haverford, 2 to 0. The playing of the University team so far this season has been quite satisfactory. On March 22, Newton Upper Falls was defeated 1 to 0 under very poor playing conditions and on March 28 the team defeated the Clinton Club in an encouraging game by the score...
Preliminary briefs of a general nature on the subject of international peace for a prize of $50 offered by the Massachusetts Peace Society must be handed in to R. H. Pass '15 at the Speakers' Club before 9 o'clock this evening. Eliminations from the contest will be made on the basis of these briefs, and those competitiors who remain will enter the final debating contest in the first week...
...Boston, prepared at Boston English High School and was graduated from Harvard in 1912. He is 23 years old, was on his Freshman team, won the Pasteur Medal in 1909, and was an alternate on the University team in 1910. He also won first prize in the Boylston elocution contest in 1911, and spoke at Commencement...
...Adler '14 prepared at Lawrenceville, where he debated on the school team for one year. He was a member of his Freshman team, was class orator in his Sophomore year, and was a prize winner in the Junior Oratorical Contest...