Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this statement, there lies the fallacy that the exercise of thousands is found in watching the contest of a hundred or less through a series of sedentary Saturday afternoons in the fall. It is an old story now to insist, for all the excitement and tradition that is bound up in November battles, that intramural sports should have been substituted for the word football in the two statements of Major Griffith, but it is an insistence that has gained tremendous strength at Harvard, and is finding a still precarious place at other colleges...
This encounter replaces one of the games scheduled with McGill, which had to be cancelled. The New York contest with the Canadian University on January 7 will take place, however...
Four rules govern the contest and are as follows: Each manuscript must be signed with a pen name and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the author's name, address and occupation. There is to be no limit to the number of manuscripts which one person may send in. Each article received before the fifth of the month will be considered for inclusion in the following issue and all material whether printed or not will be considered for the final prize which will be awarded at the close of the contest. Finally all entries must be sent to Contest Editor...
...result of the recent Wilson Prize Essay Contest, four out of the seven men, winners of the only awards given, were Harvard students, it was announced recently by the board of judges. Only 14 essays out of 10,000 that were submitted were considered worthy of any prize, and these received only third place honors...
...raises a suspicion that the Sandino men are not playing the game. They are, of course, rebels. And rebels, according to all the rules of war, are not supposed to be well armed, well uniformed, or well disciplined. Rebels are supposed to afford fleeting targets for leathernecks when the contest is waged among gentlemen...