Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brown gained an audience's decision over Harvard last night in Holden Chapel in a debate marked by a careful arrangement of the speeches and a pleasing informality of presentation. Those who heard the contest were few in number, but took a real interest in the argument, and at the end plied the speakers with so many questions that Chairman J. M. Swigert '30 had to call a halt on further queries...
...fourth annual Harvard swimming meets, beginning their three-day competitions this afternoon at the Big Tree Pool, will see the largest group of clubmen ever entered in a University swimming contest participating in the fraternity division of the affair. For the Freshman and University sections which will follow, more men have registered than ever before...
...violated no civil law. However, in the Methodist Episcopal Church is a law which says that no minister may marry a person who has been the "guilty party'' in a divorce suit. In his last divorce suit Mr. Kresge was judged a "guilty party" and did not contest the judgment. Therefore, the Rev. Benjamin Dahnes did violate a law of his Church...
...answers to a Harvard English examination. They could smoke, but honor bound them not to speak, peer or signal. At the same time Harvard's "ten brightest" took the same examination under like conditions in Cambridge. The Harvard men made the highest marks and thereby won a "brain contest" originated and financed-with a foundation of $125,000-by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of Harvard's President. The victors' spoils were $5,000 worth of books (TIME...
This year Harvard wanted to have another brain bout. Invitations were sent to Cambridge, England, to Princeton and to Yale. Last week, trustees of the fund announced that the contest would have to be postponed until next year. No one had accepted brainy Harvard's challenge...