Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lippincott prize" of $50 for best article on "Social Life at Princeton" was won by E. M. Hopkins, '88. The "Lit" poetry prize was given to Drummond, '88. In the Whig Hall soph. oratorical contest, Mitchell took first medal; Chase, second. J. Williams, in Whig Hall senior prize essay, first prize; Whittaker, '88, favorable mention. Freshman prize essay Whig Hall, first, Baxter; second, Charlton. Clio Hall, first, Chambers; second, Jeakle...
Columbia pulled Yale over two feet in the tug-of-war contest in the games at New Haven Armory last week...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I find that among the names in the tug-of-war team which '88 proposes to pit against the other classes, in the present inter-class contest, there is one man of a member of the junior class who also figures upon the University Tug-of-War Team. It seems to me that, beside being in direct opposition to the established precedent of the college in the case of other athletic organizations, this is hardly fair. In making up the nines, crews and teams which shall represent the college in all intercollegiate sports, we pick...
...after the best from each class have been chosen, I maintain, with all due respect to the efforts of the others who are left, that the inter-class contests are merely sports of an amateur nature, in which each class contends with the average untrained material which would be found in any body of young men. Whenever any of the more carefully trained or better fitted material is inserted the contest becomes one-sided...
...contest is going on among the Catholic clergy of Baltimore and Washington as to which of the priestly orders shall have control of the new Catholic university...