Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...members of other universities who learned to fly in the past summer caused the Aero Club of America to conclude that great developments may be expected in aeronautics from a utilitarian, scientific, as well as a national defense standpoint, through interesting the 200,000 university students to whom the contest is open...
...Marconi's genius none surpasses this. It has long been recognized by non-partisan observers that the range of the University Chess Team is much curtailed, and many possible glorious victories have been lost because of the team's inability to entertain the Swedish mathematical wizards in a dual contest, or to journey to Pekin to brave the Confucius Club upon its home chess board...
...result of this limited range of contest, it may be affirmed without doubt that interest in the success of the chess team has been subordinated to a less intellectual interest in the successful issue of the annual football game with Yale. In many ways this attitude is unfortunate. Chess was in vogue among the polite countiers of Kubla Khan when the game of football was played with a rough stone, kicked about the wild British moors by half-naked tribesmen. And chess will remain a noble game when the last goal post has rotted and the last pigskin has burst...
...rattle to the cabalistic numerals of the quarterbacks on any Saturday afternoon. What incentive will be given to the young Edisons, with their apparatus of chicken wire and a clothes pole, to catch from out the flying night the latest returns from the great Sitka-South Africa championship contest, or to learn that Quito has captured the title of the world...
...year, and the publications at that college have been full of Harvard-Cornell matter all summer and all this fall. The Cornell rooters are to arrive in Boston Friday in time to hold a big smoker for 600 men and work up all the enthusiasm possible for the Saturday contest. The importance of cheering and enthusiasm can be recognized by recalling the Tufts game, which was won on spirit and a fierce optimism more than anything else, while Harvard revealed the danger of the lack of just these two things. The lack of spirit is fatal in a big game...