Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasons why the various universities declined to enter the contest this year have not been divulged, but it seems that the only thing Harvard will lose by this is a considerable amount of publicity. It is doubtful whether many people took last year's culture battle as anything but a huge joke, and the final outcome had little significance outside of resulting in a gain of $5,000 for the Harvard English department...
...competitive prize in the field of literature, or in any one department of learning, the idea is wholly acceptable, but as a contest to ascertain the relative amounts of culture in one university and another, it is meaningless. It is to be hoped that the inactivity forced on the wits this season will not seriously impair their cerebral accomplishments so that we may look forward to another illuminating and amusing showdown in the future. Cornell...
With lusty lungs that swelled together proudly under stiff white shirts, with good enunciation, faithful pitch and clean phrasing, Dartmouth won last week in Manhattan the 13th Inter-Collegiate Glee Club Contest. Twelve clubs competed? Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Fordham, New York University, Ohio State, Duke, the University of Oklahoma, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania State College and Wesleyan University. The last six were winners in regional competition. After Dartmouth, New York University sang best, then Ohio State. Victorious a third year in succession, the Dartmouth gleemen took back to Hanover a silver cup given-for-keeps by Manhattan's University Glee...
Dartmouth, having completed a home and home agreement with Stanford, will play in California in 1930, and desires to use the Stadium for the return game, as the facilities at Dartmouth are considered inadequate for an intersectional contest of such interest as this will...
Announcement was made yesterday in the Cambridge Chronicle that S. B. Roberts '29 was winner of the contest conducted in the columns of that newspaper by the Nash Automobile Company of Boston for the best letter on "Why I Like a Used...