Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Athletic Association is holding a handicap contest in putting the shot and high jump. The first was last Tuesday evening and the next will be on Tuesday...
...Prof. Sargent, however, believes that the chief end of exercise is harmonious development, and the difficulty with boxing is that it has a tendency to interfere with other forms of physical activity. The intellectual pleasure which is derived from a glove contest is very keen, both to the participants and the spectators. The alertness demanded and exhibited, both for defence and attack, is absorbing, and, therefore, an interest in boxing is very likely to destroy all pleasure in other exercises that are essential to producing that harmonious development at which Prof. Sargent aims. A young man who devotes himself exclusively...
...have heard nothing lately in regard to rowing Columbia, except a casual expression of the general belief that it is inexpedient for Harvard to continue rowing a hard four-mile race, which serves only to exhaust the men for the contest with Yale. Consequently it is likely that the race will be rowed as heretofore, and the chances of defeating Yale are to be lessened materially. Can nothing be done...
...literary societies have been organized among both undergraduates and specials, some of which will devote themselves to the discussions of purely literary subjects, and others to questions of a political nature. There is rife also speculation as to the chances of the various speakers in the preliminary junior orator contests which take place in both halls, shortly. Four are chosen from each hall who will compete on public contest at commencement for the prizes offered...
...high jump there were seven contestants, two more than at the first contest. Bell, '91, won with a jump of 5ft. 3 1-2 in. Hunnewell, '90, and Briggs, L. S., tied for second...