Word: contestant
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...scholastic contest, the first of its kind ever held in this country, was established this year through a fund given by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam. The income of this $125,000 endowment will be used, this year, to give books to the members of both teams, and the sum of $5,000 will be set aside for the purchase of books by Widener Library...
Harvard's scholarship team won a close victory over the best minds of Yale in the contest held on April 30, it was announced last night. The three judges who graded the examination papers of the competition, Professors C. G. Osgood, of Princeton, J. Q. Adams, of Cornell, and A. K. Potter, of Brown, arranged the names of the twenty Crimson and Blue contestants in order of the excellence of their papers, and the points were scored by adding the number of places on the list. As in the similar scoring of a cross country meet, the team with...
Fifteen states of the Union were represented in the contest. New York and Connecticut led all other states in number of men on the two teams with three each...
Nyatt, R.I., May 30--Playing four somes in the morning and singles matches in the afternoon on the Rhode Island Country Club course, the Harvard golfers suffered a decisive setback here today in their matches with Yale. The Crimson teams dropped the University contest 7 to 2 and the Freshman event...
Decisions as to the proposed enlargement of the Stadium, and the announcement of the winner in the Harvard-Yale scholastic contest will be made public on Friday, is was announced yesterday...