Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team will leave tomorrow at 1 o'clock for the meet. The John Wanamaker stores of New York are sponsors of the contest, which is considered by coaches to be one of the most important track meets of the year...
...purpose of the contest is to stimulate greater interest in university publications, and to elevate the quality of their editorials. If the contest this year is successful, it will be made an annual event, with additional prizes later for other journalistic features. College "comics" are barred from the competition...
...competition closes July 1, 1928, and all manuscripts must be sent in by that time to be considered in the contest. All editorials must have been written by undergraduates and published during the academic year 1927-28. Monthlies, quarterlies, literary magazines, alumni publications, and comic magazines are excluded from the contest...
...director of the contest, Dean Doyle, was an instructor at Harvard, but is now the dean of men at George Washington University...
...speaking of the contest, he says, "by this initial competition for editorials, the Pi 'Delta Epsilon fraternity hopes to contribute something now, and more later, to the betterment of college journals and the encouragement of wholesome campus life...