Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Student Council had a brain storm at its meeting last Friday. Result: the College is to have a brain team, and will enter the intercollegiate culture contest field this semester...
...brain contest does nothing else, it must serve to emphasize those things for which the college exists. The world today is prone to deny the devotion of college to a serious purpose and ideal; it has come to look upon college at its worst as a professional athletic center, and at its best as a place where the men attending do anything except study...
...including many members of the Massachusetts Legislature, assembled in Symphony Hall last night to listen to the Harvard and Boston College debaters argue the merits of capital punishment, and to applaud vigorously when the unanimous decision of the three judges awarded the victory to the Bostonians. At times the contest degenerated into almost parliamentary caviling, but on many occasions it rose to brilliant heights of clear presentation and quick rebuttal which kept the audience breathless...
Those interested in entering the contest may consult Professor F. C. Packard '20 in Holden Chapel and Professor Mercler in Holyoke...
Harvard took an early lead, largely due to the excellent playing of its captain, F. A. Clark '29. For several chukkers the contest continued on even keel, but in the last two periods the N. Y. A. C. trio hit its stride and succeeded in overcoming the small Crimson advantage...