Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief interest of the April number of the Advocate is in the generous selection it prints from the Harvard entries in the annual Story Magazine contest. Of these I liked Mr. Wenzel's "Journey to Shreveport" best. It is a more brutal and masculine rendering of the situation in Josephine Johnson's "Nigger Honeymoon," with the shock of full awareness reserved until the end. Although Mr. Wenzel makes good use of the excitement of his material, his story derives its value from his ability to observe, and from a sense of country passed through and the things people...
...Crimson golfers will meet the representatives of Boston University and Bowdoin on Wednesday and Saturday of next week. On Tuesday, May 2 they encounter the Amherst team in another match to be played at Belmont. Their first league contest is scheduled for Friday, May 5 at Providence with Dartmouth...
...game is liable to turn into a slugfest, but the visiting Stahlmen have indicated that they will be more than at home in such a contest, and they ought to chalk up their third triumph in as many League starts
Into eight conference rooms at Littauer Center on one of the first days of spring crowded some ten score students. Pads and pencil, which armed every pretty maiden and a few others, who were not so pretty as their painted political ideas, dispelled all conservative fears that a contest of postoffice or "goldfish gobbling" was about to begin. For almost six hours, Littauer was converted into a gigantic safety valve for youth and all its fears and ideas. Smoke-filled rooms, hushed giggles, and overflowing ash trays gave signs through the night that the conference was still there...
...infield, have proved costly to the Boston University nine in its first tilts, and this inner defense will have to be bolstered considerably to cope with a Crimson squad which has taken full advantage of its spring trip and is rapidly rounding into mid-season form. The contest will be the first local appearance for the Stahlmen, and on Friday they will travel to Princeton for their second league clash...