Word: contestants
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Beginning with the new year there goes into effect a new set of rules to govern athletics at Harvard. They are identical with those adopted by Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania for their annual football contest. As there is a great deal of misunderstanding with regard to them, it seems advisable to print them together with an interpretation or two. There are three rules that have an important effect on our athletics. They are as follows...
...shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public contest, either individually or as a member of any team, who, either before or after entering the University, shall have engaged for money in any athletic competition, whether for a stake or money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary emolument or gain whatever, with the single exception that...
RULE II. BONA FIDE STUDENTS.No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University, in any public contest, either individually or as a member of team, unless he is, or intends to be throughout a college year, a bona fide member of the University, taking a full year's work...
...debate to be held next month in Sanders Theatre will be the fifth contest of the kind between Harvard and Yale. The first one was held in Sanders Theatre January 14, 1892. The debaters were, for Yale, R. R. Upton, W. E. Thoms and W. P. Aiken; for Harvard, G. P. Costigan, Jr., R. C. Surbridge and A. P Stone. The subject was: "Resolved, That a young man, casting his first ballot in 1892, should vote for the nominees of the Democratic party." No decision was rendered...
...usual begin immediately after the Christmas recess. Captain Wheelwright is very anxious to have the heavy men come out early in the year and train for the hammer and shot events. Last year Harvard experienced the humiliation of sending a team to New York with no one to contest in the hammer throwing and with but one man to put the shot. This would not have been so if some of the large men who started to train about two weeks before the games had come out sooner...