Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia. Surely, in view of our experience with her last year, such a thing would not be out of place. In this way we should avoid a repetition of difficulties, the blame of which can be fastened satisfactorily upon no one. As a rule, we think that every athletic contest, especially an inter-collegiate contest, should be governed by a set of definite written rules. In this way no college will be enabled by mere technicality to claim a superiority which is ridiculous and absurd...
...taken as a challenge by the sophomores, who cheered the freshmen on their way to chapel. In the chapel the freshmen and their canes could not contain themselves, and the result of their rudeness was that President Porter was compelled to denounce their action as not befitting gentlemen. The contest which usually follows was interrupted by a member of the faculty. The contestants dispersed to their rooms, probably congratulating themselves on the observance of a good old custom. Probably fearing that Yale would derive all the honor of such transactions, the students at Dartmouth determined to make an item also...
...large canes, and in passing through the double line of sophomores they were greeted with storms of cheers. As the freshmen passed into the chapel they made so much noise with their canes that President Porter characterized their action as ungentlemanly. After recitation the freshmen and sophomores began a contest, but, a member of the faculty appearing, the belligerents dispersed...
There was an oratorical contest in this city last night, but so far as heard from no damage has been done to shipping on the lake. Oratory is a valuable acquisition. Some of the best orators in our colleges frequently make good third basemen after graduating.-[Chicago Tribune...
...with a meeting Oct. 5, 1882. Noble, '84, was elected captain; Machado, '83, president; Williams, '85, vice-president; Hobbs, '85, treasurer; secretary and manager, Reuter, '84. So far the work done has been in gaining the championship of the United States and the Oelrich cup, by winning in the contest held in New York last October...