Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Thirteen men, who were chosen at the preliminary competition last Saturday, spoke. The contest was unusually close and interesting and the judges were out for over half and hour before they announced that first prizes had been awarded to Clifford Fyffe Greegg '96, and Frank Rudolph Steward '96, and second prizes to Raphael Clarke Thomas '96, Arthur Cheney Train '96, and Henry Barrett Huntington...
...prepared for Harvard at Phillips Academy, Andover, where he did considerable speaking, both in debating and in other ways. He was one of the speakers in the annual joint debate of last year between the Forum and the Philomathean Debating Club of Andover, and also on the Means Prize Contest and the Draper Prize Contest. He is now president of the Harvard Freshman Debating Club and a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Forum...
...next Saturday the Harvard and Pennsylvania track teams will contest in dual games on Franklin Field at Philadelphia. As Pennsylvania defeated Harvard at the Mott Haven games last year, the contest should be very exciting and it will probably be fairly close, although Harvard's chances of winning seem rather better than Pennsylvania's. Both teams are stronger than usual and good records are expected in all the events. A conservative estimate gives Harvard 62 points to Pennsylvanis's 50. Harvard should win the hundred with Roche, Bigelow and Redpath, all of whom are good...
...preliminary Boylston Prize competition held Saturday the judges chose thirteen men to speak in the final contest next Thursday. Those chosen are: A. A. Bryant '97, J. P. Cotton, Jr., '96, C. Dickinson '96, C. F. Gregg '96, H. B. Huntington '97, S. Kennedy '97, A. Hahlo '96, R. B. Sprague '97, F. R. Steward '96, R. C. Thomas '96, A. C. Train '96, J. P. Warren '96, and W. T. B. Williams...
...seems to us that here is an excellent opportunity for students to aid their athletic team. The admittance charged to the games is very small, and the contests promise to be close and exciting. Then too this will be the last chance that the students will have to see the work of the men who will represent Harvard at the Mott Haven games. The record of the athletes has so far been most encouraging, and there seems to be an excellent chance of Harvard winning first place again in the great contest in New York. Every man who goes...