Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regards with deep gratification the interest at Yale during the past year in extemporaneous debate resulting in two victories in intercollegiate debate-one, last December, over Princeton; the other, on May first, over Harvard; and congratulates Yale University upon this splendid record of achievement in a field of intellectual contest and discipline...
...Jersey Athletic Association has issued a challenge, on behalf of James S. Mitchell, to Edgren of California, and Cross of Yale, to compete in a hammer-throwing contest on Memorial Day, at the club grounds...
Last evening, in the Fogg Art Museum, the Freshman speakers defeated Yale in a contest of unusual merit and interest. The audience was very enthusiastic. As the speakers went on the platform they were received with rousing cheers for Yale and Harvard, and each man was applauded loudly before and after his speech. After the result was announced, the greatest enthusiasm was shown and the speakers were carried off the platform...
...wish the Freshmen success in their debate with Yale this evening. This debate with Yale is the most important contest of the year for Ninety-nine. A victory in baseball or even a victory in beating at Poughkeepsie will not bring so much credit to the class as the defeat of the Yale freshmen tonight. We feel great confidence in the men who to a certain extent are to represent the University in this debate. Their work as shown by the debates that have been held through the year has been of an exceptionally high order. They speak with great...
Ninety-nine must wake up and show more enthusiasm than it has. It must realize before it is too late the real importance of the contest. If freshman debating is not to be given up the debaters must prove that they are competent to speak in a way that will reflect credit upon the University, and the class must show that it is interested enough to support their representatives. The main support must of course come from this class, and it will speak but poorly for the class spirit of the Freshmen if there are many empty seats tonight...