Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mile walk will probably be taken by H. H. Bemis, '87, or Wright, L. S., of Harvard. Bemis took second place in this contest last year...
...oratorical contest recently held in Trinity College, Brinley, the tennis player, took the second prize...
...Leavitt, '90. Mr. Soren's record jump of 9 feet 6 inches was beaten by an inch, making the present record 9 feet 7 inches. Mr. Leavitt vaulted in good form and there is no reason why he may not better this jump by several inches. Of the other contestants. Wheelwright cleared the bar at 9 feet; Dickerman and Craig were not in condition to contest...
...Yale News comments on the smallness of the record made in the pole-vault contest last Saturday...
...true inwardness of Yale's position in the base-ball question is beginning to be understood at New Haven, for the determination of Princeton and Harvard to leave her to contest with the smaller colleges, if she does not see fit to join them, has begun to work consequences of no little moment. It is reported that some members of the nine are about to give up practice if they are to be compelled to play with inferior nines. Although the college has voted once for all not to join the triangular league, still another meeting will probably be called...