Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...humorous editor of the Spirit of the Times prints the following bogus letter from Harvard: Cambridge, Mass., April 19. - Our "Lake Winnipiseogee" crew is hard at work, doing well, and anxiously awaiting the day when they will meet Yale at Lake Winnipiseogee, to contest for the Lake Winnipiseogee Cup Yours, Mott Haven...
...Sherrill, '89, are the most promising candidates for the 100 yards dash, and all of these men will probably enter the 220 yards dash. For the 140 yards run, Coit, '87, Goetchins, '88 S. and Walker, '89 and doing the best work. Smith, '86 and Bradner, '89 will contest for the 1-2 mile run, and Bond, ??? S., Lane, '88 and Schwab, '88 for the ???. Ludington, '87 will enter the 120 yards hurdle race, which was won by him last year. In the mile walk, Davison, '88 S., and Wentworth, '87 S., are training, but neither are doing the work...
...Saturday evening, May 1, delegates from Yale, Princeton, Wesleyan, and the University of Pennsylvania met in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, to arrange for the inter-collegiate foot-ball contest next fall. There were present Messrs. Brooks and Keyes from Harvard, DeCamp, Savage and Bradford from Princeton, Peters and Corwin from Yale, and two representatives each from Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania...
...preliminary competition for the Boylston Prize Speaking will occur this week. About thirty men will compete. We publish in another column the order of the competition. We will publish the list of the successful contestants on Saturday. We are desired to say that great care should be taken that each piece shall not exceed five minutes in time of delivery. Although this may seem a very short time to each speaker, it is probable that the time of the whole programme will seem far from short. The contest promises to be very spirited, as many good speakers have entered...
...members of other colleges relative to base-ball and general athletics. We have made arrangements by which such a communication from each college in the base-ball league will be published. By this means, our readers will be enabled to learn the opinions of our opponents concerning the contest now opened. The first is a letter from Williams...