Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston Y. M. C. A. tank tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the fourth meet of the season. F. S. Swayze '19 will be second man on the relay in place of S. J. Rogers '17. Wesleyan has barely defeated both the University and Amherst so that the contest is sure to be a close one. Reserved seats at 50 cents may be secured from any of the managers, the H. A. A. or the Boston...
...Princeton team has not played a game since it was defeated by the University on February 2 and has consequently been able to prepare exclusively for tonight's contest. In that same time the University has defeated McGill and lost to Yale. Although the men had little trouble with the Canadians, their showing in New Haven last Saturday was of the early season variety and they have continued their ragged work during the past week's practice. Coach Winsor has been driving his players hard in the hopes of defeating Princeton, but though past records are more favorable...
Considerable light was thrown on the proposed scientific merger of the University and Technology in the hearing Wednesday. Judge Pierce said that he had supposed the question in contest was whether the fund should be administered by Harvard College and the instruction given in a department of the College. Charles F. Choate '88, counsel for the University, replied that the testator was to administer the fund, as it administered other funds. Mr. Choate explained that in the arrangement there is no surrender of the McKay Fund to Technology, as many suppose, that the title to it remains in the University...
...Smith Common Room last night Chase Mellen, Jr., '20, of Garden City, L. I., N. Y., was elected manager of the Freshman Musical Clubs and Frederic Keil Bullard '20, of Revere, leader of the Freshman Glee Club. The men who will lead dormitory singing in the interdormitory contest at the Freshman Jubilee were announced as follows: Smith Halls, John White Geary, Jr., '20, of Chestnut Hill, Pa.; Standish Hall, Harold Arthur Roberts '20, of New-ank Valley, N. Y.; Gore Hall, Frederic Keil Bullard '20, of Revere...
...less true now than it was a hundred years ago that our first line of defence is the Navy. It is more true. The elaboration of modern war has made the machine the essential element of defence. A battleship is the most stupendous kind of a war machine. The contest between England, the greatest sea-power, and Germany, the greatest land-power, has proved to the world that a navy which may command the seas avails more than millions of men fighting in the trenches, or hundreds of millions of treasure...