Word: contested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task which confronts them in the contest tonight is particularly difficult since the affirmative side has been demonstrated as the harder to present logically and convincingly. The team is relying on a combination of humor and logic to carry them to victory over their more strongly entrenched opponents A brief outline of their proposed plan of attack has been made public...
...April 14 all manuscripts which are to be submitted for the Harper Prize contest must be in the hands of W. D. Edmonds '26 in Stoughton 18, or W. I. Nichols '26, in Massachusetts 1 who have been appointed to collect the writings, and to chose therefrom those they consider worthy of consideration by the judges appointed by Harper...
...manuscripts which are submitted in the contest may be either fiction, essays, or articles, but must not exceed 4,000 words in length. The purpose of the competition is largely to stimulate interest in the writing of English prose among college...
...other colleges entering in the competition for the Harper's Magazine prize, the manuscripts which the undergraduates hand in for the contest are to be entered by the heads of the English Departments, each of whom are to send not more than three manuscripts from the material submitted by his students. The members of the English Departments of the College have, however, refused to do this, and it was, therefore, imperitive that another means of cutting down the manuscripts be found, and with this in view, three literarily prominent undergraduates were selected to choose the writings which will be submitted...
...Wade Prize of $50 is given by Dr. Francis Henry Wade in memory of his son, Lee Wade the second, of the Class of 1914, who while at College, was especially interested in public speaking and took part in the contest for the Boylston Prizes. It is the first prize of the evening...