Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spring practice season of the football squad will end with the kicking and passing contest which will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The prizes offered are for punting, drop and place goal kicking, and passing...
This is the last week of spring practice. On Friday the season will end with the annual kicking and passing contest. Prizes will be awarded for punting, drop kicking, place kicking and quarterback work...
...prominent event in the last week here was of course the debate with Harvard. Never before has such an interest been shown by the undergraduates in a contest of this kind, and the unexpected victory of Yale added greatly to the enthusiasm. It is felt that the cause of debating has received an impetus, the effects of which will be lasting. The speeches of the Harvard debaters at the banquet after the debate seemed to express the sentiment here exactly, and by their manly tone added greatly to the victory. The alumni throughout the country have received the news...
...anxious to help them, but either because they thought themselves sufficiently prepared or because they did not care to give the time, the debaters neglected to avail themselves of his assistance, and as a result their form was not good. While Yale was all stirred up over the approaching contest; while debates were being held every other night to which hundreds of undergraduates went and applauded the speakers; what were we doing at Harvard? Absolutely nothing. Many students were only dimly conscious that there was to be any debate with Yale, and the great majority didn't care if there...
...PAKER.BOYLSTON PRIZES.- The preliminary trial for the contest for the Boylston prizes for speaking will take place in Sanders Theatre, Saturday, May 9, at 2 o'clock...