Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...done to put them on a sound footing. Undoubtedly the strongest feeling against athletics is caused by the prevalence of betting and I should therefore urge that the association pass a vote, providing that those who accept offices in the association shall have no pecuniary interest in any contest...
Where is the tennis association? As yet it has shown no life although the contest at Hartford for the intercollegiate championship takes place within two weeks and nothing has yet been done to have Harvard represented. This remarkable association seems to be run in a very peculiar and jerky manner, sometimes awaking from its usual state of lethargy and astonishing the college by its activity and then relapsing into quiet. Now is certainly one of the times when an immediate and hasty awakening is necessary. Let either a general meeting be called or a conference of the stewards and other...
...Yale a political club is being formed by students to do work in the presidential contest...
...after Commencement all the undergraduates who were able and manyalumni of both Harvard and Yale, together with sympathizers and lady friends, hastened to New London to see the annual contest for the college boating championship. but a short description of it cannot be amiss on the return to Cambridge of the undergraduates. Most of the Harvard men and their friends had obtained seats on the observation train and a little before two o'clock the cars of this train drew out of the New London depot and steamed up along the river bank to the start. The weather, which...
...result of yesterday's race, however, is but a fresh example of the little reliance which can be placed upon estimates of a crew's efficiency which are based only upon the reports of its performances prior to the decisive contest. The crew which represented the Blue and White in this season's race is one of which Columbia may well be proud, and our own crew, too, has every reason to congratulate itself upon its success in crossing the finish in the lead, for its opponents proved themselves, by their splendid rowing, to be no unworthy rivals...