Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last week the names of the contestants for the Baird prize in oratory were announced by the faculty. The men are chosen from the senior class and the main interest in the contest each year comes from the fact that the valedictorian and several other commencement speakers will be chosen from these contestants and the winning of the first Baird has usually, but not invariably, been the valedictorian in June...
...football, or the universities, to run even a chance of a repetion of Yale's experience since the Harvard game. Unless then such contradictions come from you would it not be wiser to allow the feeling thus engendered to cool with time rather than to enter upon a contest with these recollections fresh in our minds? Should you still be unwilling to do us justice in this way we have concluded to arrange no game with you. Let me assure you, however, that in case a proper contradiction of these charges is made we shall take pleasure in arranging...
...game between the Harvard and West Point football elevens on Saturday was played in a drenching rain, but, nevertheless it was an exciting contest. Harvard won by a score...
...contest for officers and class day orators of the senior class was close, the president being elected by but one majority. They are as follows: President, Charles Pool; vice-president, George Mower; treasurer, F. E. Tellon; secretary, R. B. Whittaker; historian, C. W. Parmelee; class-day historian, George Baier; presentor of mementoes, F. Manning; Prophet, C. A. Poulsen; ivy orator, Thomas Letson; address to undergraduates, George W. Hullman; address to president, H. Mareli; orator, P. Pierson; presentor of memorials, F. Tilton; class-day orator, W. Ranney; pipe orator, Gustav Witty; poet, C. Mallery; ivy planter, A Jennings...
Hickok was in excellent form in the shot putting contest, and he put the shot five feet farther than the second man, Brown, Yale's second string...