Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...towns of Southern Germany, I was amused to find a picture, apparently taken from the Police Gazette, showing the last home run between the Chicagos and New York. In explanation of this illustration, I found the following: "The picture in our to-day's issue represents a sort of contest in running and ball-throwing, which is very popular in North America, but wholly unknown in Europe. Twenty-four players divide off into two opposing parties, and every man is given a fixed position on a large field, from which he tries his utmost to achieve glory and victory...
...work in rowing and base-ball. It proves, if any proof was necessary, that our opponents are calculacing upon a hard season's work, and that every effort will be made to win back the championship in one or more of the college sports. This will make the contest a little more entertaining than it was last year, and we may anticipate close work. While we feel that our athletic teams hardly need such harsh remedies to recuperate their energies, this action of Yale will supply whatever encouragement there is needed. For now a victory will signify much, and will...
...Yale both cordially welcome Harvard back again into the foot-ball league. The Princetonian and News express almost as much satisfaction with the recent action of our faculty as characterizes the most jubilant Harvardian. These courteous greetings are expressive of a generous rivalry that speaks well for the contest next fall...
...days since Mr. Lowell was speaking to a body of students, 20 or 30 in number, in regard to civil service reform. He spoke with great earnestness in respect to the reform as having a moral element, as being of no less importance than the old anti-slavery contest, in some aspects, perhaps, even of greater consequence than that. When he spoke in this way in regard to the moral principle involved in civil service reform, a very considerable part of that body of students laughed a little, as if it were a joke. It was an illustration of what...
...junior polo club of Boston University is to contest in a series of games at the Olympian, with the English high and the Boston Latin schools. The prize will be a polo ball and a silver plated polo stick...