Word: contests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whole it was a very successful contest, and it is to be hoped that next year several games may be played between the Tens of McGill and Harvard...
...success, and the applause and gratitude of the students at large. The subscribers to the Ball Club, when they give the two dollars to the Titan who acts as tax-collector for the Nine, console themselves, almost invariably, with the reflection that they will see, at any rate, well-contested games, and, in all probability, many victories for Harvard; although it is now reported that Yale has finally decided to win the college championship for 1874. If this is really the feeling of the College, what must be the disappointment to find that this year the men, while sweltering...
...representatives of five colleges met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York, April 3, to make definite arrangements for the intercollegiate contest. The colleges represented were Williams, Princeton, University of New York, Wesleyan, and Columbia. It was decided that the first contest should take place January 7, 1875, in the Academy of Music, in New York City. There will be contests in oratory and essay-writing. The following judges were appointed: Oratory, - Whitelaw Reid, William Cullen Bryant, and Dr. Chapin. Essays, - T. W. Higginson, James T. Fields, and Richard Grant White. Letters of encouragement were read from President McCosh...
Then commenced the contest there...
ALTHOUGH our College has so decisively declared itself against engaging in an intercollegiate literary contest, such as is proposed for the coming summer, we confess to having many lingering regrets for the somewhat inconsiderate determination at which we so hastily arrived. We think that these are shared by quite a large number of our fellow-students, who are curious to see how our men would stand in comparison with those of other colleges, and to find out whether we are really much worse off for our lack of collegiate instruction in writing and speaking, which we have so often been...