Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale is calling for greater exertions on the part of undergraduates to work for the Mott Haven contest. They want to get out all the available material, but find it a difficult task...
...reported that Forest and Stream is to offer a prize for an inter-collegiate rifle contest...
Cups for prizes and medals for those breaking the Harvard record will be given as usual. The general excellence contest will include the same events as last year; parallel bars, horizontal bar, two-hand vault, running high jump, standing high jump, and flying rings. In addition to these class flags will be awarded to the class winning the greatest number of first prizes in the first three meetings. In case of a tie, second places will count. In sparring and wrestling, first prizes only will count. The tug-of-war will count as but one event in this contest. Entries...
...considered to be very good. He had one of the twenty-nine parts on "Commencement Day," and spoke on John Knox in a "Conference on the Character of John Knox, William Pean and John Wesley." Josiah Quincy, his classmate, and the winner of the first prize at the Bowdoin contest, made this entry in his journal under date of July 16, 1821: "Attended a dissertation of Emerson's, in the morning, on the subject of Ethical Philosophy. I found it long and dry." The next day he went to the chapel, where Barnwell and Emerson took part on valedictory exercises...
...public of the college world. That this argument, and arguments like this, or indeed that the more practical and definite arguments from utility and experience that are more often urged in favor of Greek in the debate now going on, are likely to prevail here at Harvard, where the contest in this country has now principally centred, seems indeed very doubtful. A follower of Mr. Matthew Arnold mitt be inclined to say that Harvard is fast going over to the Philistines. How that may be we do not know, since Philistines or Barbarians in this country are hard to define...