Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, CONN., May 10. - The first debate between the freshman debating societies of Harvard and Yale was held at Alumni Hall tonight, and resulted in a victory for Yale, after a very close contest. The audience numbered about five hundred persons and nearly filled the hall...
...holder of the intercollegiate cup, Princeton has the right to name the place and time of the Gun Club contest with Yale and accordingly has challenged Yale to shoot at Princeton on either May 23, June 7, or the morning of June 8. Yale has accepted the challenge and named June 8 as the date, the day of the second Yale-Princeton baseball game...
...have before this given our reasons for believing that in college dailies athletic news is bound to occupy more space than can any report of the intellectual work done in the college. With the public press this is even more true. The account of an athletic contest may easily be given a sensational tone which matches the popular taste; but the doings of the student are too quiet and unexciting to hold the interest of the reading public. Let him enter upon the field of competition, so that college may be pitted against college in scholarly contest, and the resulting...
...HAVEN, CONN., May 8. - The spring regatta of the Yale Navy was held yesterday afternoon on Lake Whitney, and the sophomore eight won the class championship of the university by defeating the freshmen in the final heat. The 'varsity and the sophomores then rowed over the same course. The contest was a close one as the 'varsity had agreed not to row faster than 30 strokes to the minute. The 'varsity finished two lengths ahead...
...game will be played next Saturday afternoon at half past three, on Holmes Field. It should be a very interesting contest, as the nines were unable to meet in their freshman year. The Yale nine is considered the best class nine at New Haven, and the nine here is very strong as is well known...