Word: contests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...affairs, when the man who reads and the man who rows has each a goal before him worth reaching, when there is something substantial to be made from the use of brains or of muscle in college, then will be the time when indifference will vanish. With us, contest for rank and scholarships is not a contest of brains. He takes the highest rank who happens by any means to amass the highest number of marks among the men who try for high marks. The scholarships support fools who have simply a moderate capacity for work and very empty pockets...
...satisfactory results at the regular fall championship match to take place to-morrow. Columbia and Cornell are beginning to take up rifle-shooting, and the prospect of an intercollegiate match is not very distant. Although we do not believe in keeping up a sport on account of an expected contest, we trust that an intercollegiate contest will be brought about for another reason, - on account of the interest the colleges take in the sport...
...Trinity Tablet: "The word was given, and '79 and '80 met with terrible force. For a moment the well-known pluck of '79 withstood the shock, but in a second the overwhelming numbers of '80 [35 in the class] overcame the resistance, and decided the fate of the contest. '79 was pushed, but it was not to their shame. For hey showed great pluck in attempting to 'rush' a class just twice their own in size...
...contest for the College championship eleven games have been played, and nineteen still remain to be played. The games played resulted as follows...
From present appearances the race will be closely contested, at all events, and it is greatly to be hoped that the crews will do all in their power to prevent the contest from degenerating into a mere scratch-race...