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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the football, baseball, and athletic teams representing the college at an intercollegiate meeting are eligible. Members of football or baseball teams must have played in at least one intercollegiate game, and members of athletic teams must have won a first, second, or third prize in an intercollegiate contest to be eligible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth's New Athletic Prize. | 1/24/1893 | See Source »

Last night's debate has certainly helped to emphasize more fully the advantages and beneficial results of this comparatively new form of contest between two colleges. When the scheme of intercollegiate debates was first proposed and discussed there was some feeling that such a form of contest might not be successful; that it would not interest college undergraduates or incite them to take part in a contest, the character of which was so excellent. The first debate of last year, however, was a pleasing proof to the contrary, and the second debate, even more successful than the first, was only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/19/1893 | See Source »

...more interesting than in former years. The weights for the wrestling events will be, heavy, above 150; middle, 150 limit; light, 135 limit and special, 125 limit. The weights for the sparring will be the same as appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON. There will also be a shot putting contest at this meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Program for the Winter Meetings. | 1/12/1893 | See Source »

...Engineering News Publishing Company of New York has just made its annual offer of prizes for the best graduating theses of '93. The contest is open to 1893 Graduates in any Engineering course of any college in the United States or Canada...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prizes for Engineering Theses. | 1/11/1893 | See Source »

There are three ways in which the question can be settled. The winners of the Harvard-Yale and Oxford-Cambridge races could race together merely to test the relative abilities of those four colleges. This would probably be popularly known as a contest for the world's championship though such a claim would be manifestly unjust to Cornell if allowed. But if the proposed contest should come off at all it is far more likely that the English Crew, the Cornell crew and the winner of the Harvard-Yale contest will row in a triangular race. A third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquatics at Cornell. | 1/10/1893 | See Source »

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