Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the opening of the contest it was evident that the University team had the edge on the Middlebury hoopsters; the Harvard forwards especially were playing a better brand than the Vermont offense...
...Harvard men were winners in the recent Whitney Warren Architectural Prize Design Contest, which offers cash prizes amounting to $75 to the contributors of the most approved set of drawings on a given specific problem. C. C. Kressbach 3G. was the winner of first place and third place was won by Takashi Matsumoto 1G., students in the School of Architecture, it was announced last night in a statement to the CRIMSON. This is the first time that a Harvard student has ever won first place in the contest, but for several years the University has always had some entry...
...contest closed in October. Last week the result was announced-or lack of result. Some 10,000 citizens had tried to make Woodrow Wilson mean $25,000 to them. But, with the seventy-first anniversary of the birth of Woodrow Wilson at hand, Dr. George McLean Harper, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton and foreman of the essay-judging jury, was obliged to announce that not one of the essays submitted was, in substance or style, "fit to be published without embarrassment and submitted to the critical judgment of educated men and women...
Critics blamed, not necessarily the ineptitude or insincerity of young U. S. essayists, not necessarily a dwindling of public interest in Woodrow Wilson, but perhaps the title chosen for the contest: "What Woodrow Wilson Means to Me." This was a "true-story", confessional title, and naturally produced embarrassingly sentimental contributions...
...France, Match, large sporting weekly, held a popularity contest. France voted that her favorite athlete was Lucien Michard...