Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oratorical contest, Thursday, at Buchtel College, Akron, O., to select a representative to the state inter collegiate contest, there were among the contestants a young lady, named Miss Mary Sibbley, and H. C. Morris, a son of a Chicago millionaire. The judges decided in favor of the young lady, and upon this the father of the young man sprang up and charged the judges with being prejudiced. The son has chalenged the young lady for a second contest for $1000 a side, the stakes to go for the founding of a hospital in Akron, to be named after the successful...
...event, but in order to insure success in that event, the Athletic Association will offer second prizes for tug-of-war as well as for all other events. Teams and individuals have commenced work in the gymnasium with special reference to those winter sports, and a grand contest is expected. - Princetoman...
...year at Worcester, and to have a silver ball as the prize for that college which should beat the most games." "The colleges which have proved true to their agreements" (in this matter,) said the Hamilton Campus, "are Harvard, Dartmouth and Hamilton. The prospect of an exciting and satisfactory contest being thus defeated by the withdrawal of Yale, Princeton and Williams, it has been thought best to indefinitely postpone the tournament." In fact, it did not succeed until some years later...
There is an oratorical association at Oberlin College which charges admittance to its annual contest. They recently took...
...preliminary Junior Orator contest held in Bath Hall, simultaneously resulted in the selecting of the following gentlemen to represent the societies on the commencement stage: - Whight Hall - C. J. Hatfield, J. H. Pershing, W. M. Daniels and W. M. Irvine. Clio Hall - A. H. Miller, W. A. Wyckoff, L. Farrand and J. E. Hedges...