Word: contests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Secretary of the Harvard Cricket Club has written to McGill University in regard to a cricket contest which it is hoped can be so arranged as to occur in May, when their Foot-Ball Club visits...
...officers, at Hartford on Thursday, February 19. Representatives were present from fourteen colleges: Amherst, Brown, Bowdoin, Cornell, Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Princeton, Rutgers, Syracuse University, Trinity, Williams, Wesleyan, and the University of the City of New York. Colonel Higginson addressed the convention, strongly advocating the proposed plan of literary contests, and advising small beginnings and humble aims. Mr. C. D. Warner and Mark Twain were both present as supporters, and each made an address. A constitution was drawn up to go into effect upon its adoption by five different colleges. The time and place suggested for the opening contest...
...decision of the colleges, assembled in convention at Hartford, to hold their first annual literary contest in the city of New York will strike the moral sentiment of the country with surprise. Good men everywhere will view the decision with sorrow and mortification. There is but one conclusion possible in the case. The college convention was captured by the vile emissaries of Tammany. We need not name the methods that were probably employed to procure the bringing of innocent college boys within reach of those unmentionable influences in the great metropolis. The ways of Tammany are dark, and its appliances...
...anything more was needed to make us satisfied with the position we have taken in regard to the contest, this would be enough. Deliver us from the snares of the fowler...
...Amherst Student, in an editorial, assigns its reasons for withdrawing from the Regatta in a straightforward, manly way which commands our respect, though we think her action a mistaken one. If the pledges of the Saratoga Rowing Association are fulfilled, Amherst will again enter the contest next year...