Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rush, and, last Tuesday night, Technology, no less than Harvard, ignored the efforts of certain papers to provoke a quarrel in "Newspaper Row." While we should have enjoyed, as much as the Harvard students, the excitement of a rush, we felt that, after the efforts made to abolish this contest, we would have been at least discourteous to be the first to revive this old custom...
...that each year when the time arrives for the most important University games to be played, when reputation for the College is to be made, the Harvard players are crippled and of little or no avail? Why is it necessary to use up the team in practice and by contests with unimportant teams just before the great games of the year? Of course I realize that thorough and systematic hard practice is necessary, but there is a limit to human endurance, and some discretion should be used, that the men shall be serviceable when the most important games occur...
...square, and yet they are expected to win games! The contrast between Princeton and Harvard men on Saturday was most striking, one team was fresh and ready, the other stiff and slow and apparently used up. Why does Harvard have so many cripples every year before the great college contests begin? Why cripple the men ourselves? Is the management right? It is most important to win over Pennsylvania as it is a great college contest-it is not material about the Boston Athletic Association. Yet I believe the Boston Athletic Association will, by the hard game they will give, very...
...football game a week from tomorrow,- the first contest under the new agreement,- a large number of graduates of the schools, now in Harvard, should be present and make it known that they heartily approve the resumption of athletic contests between the old rivals...
...following men will contest in the final round of the tournament...