Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their strength. In the newspaper reports of their games they are careful to allow few complimentary remarks to steal in. Yet all this while they are working as they never worked before; they are straining every fibre of strength that the college can boast, and when the great contest with Yale comes, their powers will be unmasked, but not till then...
After a long contest, the will of Barbara Scott, an eccentric and miserly woman in Montreal, has been pronounced valid. She willed a large property to public objects, giving $40,000 to McGill University for the foundation of a school of engineering, and leaving the remainder to hospitals, churches and public benefit institutions...
...United States, is peculiarly gratifying to Harvard. Of course all chances are open to the college to win the championship this year in other, and perhaps more important events, but in none have we complete assurance of success - in foot-ball, in base-ball and on the Thames the contest will evidently be unusually close this season. The championship in lacrosse, thanks only to the steady efforts and excellent work of the team, is now assured...
...Harvard, Yale and Princeton University elevens are all stronger teams than those of '81, and the contest for the pennant this month promises to lead to a very exciting series of games. - [N. Y. World...
...some fine playing was seen. But the freshmen did not come forward as had been hoped, and, owing to several causes, the games did not arouse as much general interest as could have been wished. It may be doubted whether the fall is the best season for a contest of this sort. The athletic interest of the college is then centred in other things, and, moreover, the weather is not usually so favorable to good play then as in the spring. If a second series of class games could be arranged for the earlier part of the spring season, with...