Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is more work being done in this branch of athletics than ever before. A desperate effort will be made to bring home the cup. The struggle between Brooks, Yale's champion runner, and Wendell Baker of Harvard, will be the grandest thing ever seen in an inter-collegiate contest of this kind. They will probably meet in the 220 and 440 yards races, in the half-mile and perhaps in the mile. Baker holds the records, but Brooks is so close to him that the betting will be even as to which wins. Shearill...
...represent Harvard in the coming contest for the Mott Haven Cup have been hard at work in the gymnasium since the Christmas recess. They are under Mr. Lathrop's constant care, and give promise of making one of the best teams, possibly the best, that Harvard has ever entered...
Judging from the large number of men who are trying for positions on the freshman tug-of-war team, eighty-nine will be able to select some strong men who will give the other classes a close contest next spring...
...unusually large number of men who are practising on the horizontal bar gives promise of an interesting contest in that event at the coming winter meetings...
...shiny but hard hearted benches, to our Laboratories with their curious devices for holding students, as it were, in situ for an hour at a time, - through all the weary round constantly the observer's wonder increases at the conditions under which existence can make even a partially successful contest with extinction. There are three or four main classes into which these seating facilities may be divided, first the "forms," next the chairs fastened together, third, chairs and desks, and fourth, broken chairs...