Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman class at Yale numbers only 134. On the other hand, the Sheffield Scientific School has a freshman class of ninety-three - a gain of ten students over last years. And the advocates of the elective system are not slow in calling the attention of their opponents in the contest in educational methods to these suggestive figures, and from them draw the obvious conclusion that the elective system, as exemplified at Harvard, is becoming more and more popular, and that the old system of requiring Latin and Greek must yield...
...spite of the intolerable heat of the afternoon a crowd of almost 6,000 paying spectators gathered to witness the contest, while some 2,000 more watched the game as best they could from outside the fence. The reserved seats were crowded with ladies, by whom the crimson was liberally displayed...
...base-ball contest stands as below...
...hotly raged the contest then...
Only one more game is to be played in the class nine contest, that between '88 and '85, if however this game should be won by the seniors, there would be a tie between '88, '86, and '85. Should the freshmen win, they will secure the class championship. '87 is out of the contest. The following is the standing of the nines...