Word: contests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Greenwood Lake, about forty miles from New York, will probably be the place of the next contest...
...morning had been devoted to a contest in ploughing, for Orono is decidedly agricultural in its interests, and before three o'clock the class of '76 had donned their frock-coats and with resplendent button-hole bouquets were marching into the town-hall...
...clubs will be excited to attain the greatest number of flags as indications of a superior record. It is the design of the Crimson to offer a flag every year, whether rowing be conducted according to the class or club sytesm, and as the club crews are to contest the races at present, it will be offered to them in the coming spring...
...Boston. He speaks very highly of the style in which the Harvard crew is rowing. Mr. Dana, their coach, has recently visited England, and under his training the men show great improvement over their work of last year. They give promise of being an excellent eight, and the contest will undoubtedly be of unusual interest. - Record...
...truth is, men are hanging back to see who their antagonists are going to be. This is, of course, nonsense; if a man is capable of entering into an athletic contest at all, he ought not to be afraid to have it known that he considers himself a fair match for any other man of the same weight who may happen to be his opponent. We understand the feeling that prompts this procrastination, but cannot do otherwise than condemn it; somebody must make the first advances, and so long as a man has made up his mind to spar...