Word: contests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...read a very dull book nearly all day,-"grinding" for the Mid-years. At length, in the evening, I could stand it no longer. My mind was tired, my memory overtaxed. With one last attempt to master my author's dullness, I yielded to him and retired from the contest exhausted. To invigorate myself I turned to De Quincey. I chanced to take up the volume on Murder, and tried the story of the murderer Johnson. The first few pages were interesting. The interest developed. Before I had read much farther I was conscious of nothing but the meaning...
...higher education of the young men of America. It is now to be determined whether students shall be at liberty to take any branches they choose. The fight is only begun, and will continue for years, and Princeton, with its professors, trustees, and alumni, will take part in the contest...
...equal of the Glee Club of any college in the country. So Princeton, which will have her Class Glee Clubs, and Yale, with a second Glee Club and a Freshman club to draw from, will soon be able to compete on equal terms in another grand contest for the championship, which will have the advantage that no blood will be shed, although we presume the Record and the Princetonian would never acknowledge which side was beaten. Some permanent arrangement for musical instruction will probably be made, if these first attempts meet with the success which they most certainly deserve...
Only four months now remain before the annual contest for the Mott Haven Cup at New York. In those four months Harvard must work exceedingly hard if she wishes to retain the ascendancy which she has held ever since...
There will be a gymnastic contest for the amateur championship of America in New York on Feb. 19, 1885, in the following events: horizontal bar, parallel bars, flying rings, and club swinging...