Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class musical clubs of Princeton held a prize contest last Monday, evening. President McCosh presented the award, a silver badge, which was assigned by the judges to the club from '86. Dr. McCosh also announced that a prize of $25 would be given to any undergraduate who should hand in before September, the best Princeton college song, words and music...
...second race for two miles was in Class A canoes. Only two men entered the contest; A. G. Webster, '85, Gerin ine; and E. K. Dunham, M. S., Phillis. Dunham, whose canoe had but one sail, was so handicapped by it in the head wind, that he withdrew soon after rounding the first buoy. The start in the race was made at 11.07, and Webster, who finished the race alone, completed the first mile at 11.31, and the second...
...apolism and mysticism brings into prominence two comparatively new phases of the question. But the latter half of the book is hardly satisfactory, and the reader feels the failure upon the author's part to carefully track the various phases of the more active and agressive character of the contest...
...HURDLE RACE, 120 YARDS.This was the most unfair contest of the whole afternoon. Ludington of Yale, and Safford of Columbia, and Bradley, '86 were the contestants. The starter gave the word to get ready, and the first two started without waiting for the pistol. Bradley requested that they be set back according to rule, but the starter without heeding him fired his pistol, and Bradley had to follow the other two, by that time already half way to the first hurdle, or get left entirely. He ran so much better than they that he cleared the last hurdle almost...
...POLE VAULT.This was rather a tame contest. The three Harvard men. Frothingham, '86; Dudley, '87; and Craig '87; all failed at 9 feet. The winner, L. D. Godshall, '87, Lafayette, make a record of 9 ft. 7 1 4 in. The second man was A. Stevens, '87, Columbia...