Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...soon enough to allow the track to dry, there will be some unusual records made for so early in the season, as good use has been made of the two weeks during which the men have been on the cinder track. At any rate there will be a close contest between the classes for the Wells cup, and all who can are asked to show their interest in the team by attending the games...
...fourth shot-putting contest will be held on Holmes field today...
...Mott Haven squad are now training for the class games to be held April 8. A rough estimate of the records made by men who will compete indicates that the chief contest will be between the Seniors and the Sophomores. The Wells Cup, in competition for which the class games are held annually, has been won by '97 for three years in succession. If they win it again this year it will go to them permanently...
...considering the outcome of the contest it is, above all, advisable to give the Yale men full credit for their victory. The decision may have been a surprise to the audience, but it must be remembered that the audience was one of Harvard supporters. The ideas entertained at Yale as to the propriety of faculty coaching of debaters may be different from those held at Harvard, and it is certainly desirable that the two universities come to an understanding and meet hereafter on terms which are unquestionably equal; but such considerations are, for the present, out of order. Harvard...
...second time since intercollegiate debating contests were established between Harvard and Yale the debate has been won by Yale. The question for debate was: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt definitively the single gold standard and should decline to enter a bimetallic league even if Great Britain, France and Germany should be willing to enter such a league." The contest was one of the closest ever held, as is shown by the fact that the judges were out twenty minutes before they came to a final decision. The speaking on both sides was of a very high order...