Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attention from persons who are interested in such matters. Since Yale and Harvard withdrew from the Inter-collegiate Rowing Association, after having decided that they did not like to be beaten, except in an exclusive way by each other, their crews have won three races each. This year the contest is the rubber. Yale, Harvard and Columbia now have their men in vigorous training. The crews are better than they were last season. Each has several men who have rowed in races before, and who are therefore well-seasoned for the four miles' course which takes the "tuck...
...edict has gone forth to lower the net in lawn tennis, and that for the future, in single matches, the correct height of the net will be three feet six inches at the post and three feet at the centre. The new rule will be adopted in the contest for the championship at Wimbledon. It seems a very great pity that so many alterations are made in the game. The end will be to spoil it. This lowering of the net was not at all desirable. The height kept down the experiments in overhand serving. - [London Court Journal...
...contest between the two factions at Ann Arbor in regard to Chronicle editors is becoming lively. The Chronicle editors answer the allegations of the Argonaut party in a counter-circular. Their address concludes: "Admitting for the moment that the action of the board was illegal: in that case there are legal means to obtain legal rights, of which presumably those who have consulted this "competent legal authority" are fully aware. Why then do they not use those means to obtain those rights, instead of seeking a doubtful vindication by the hazardous and expensive method of starting a new paper...
...every possible way. The outlook is a hard one for the nine at the best, and in consequence it should be encouraged. A great interest in this game has already been manifested by upper class men, and if we can prophesy correctly a large crowd will witness the contest. At this game we sincerely hope that not one freshman will be seen among the spectators outside the fence...
...Lowe Wheeler election contest in the House was ended Saturday by the seating of Lowe...