Word: contests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...easy victory by the score of 9 to 3. With the game against the University of North Carolina on April 21 the schedule for the southern tour this year ended. The game resulted in a victory for Princeton by the score of 9 to 2. In this contest the all round work of the team was the best that has been seen this season. Considering the tour as a whole, the chief features were the unusually fine pitching of Jayne and the excellent work of Bradley and Butler. Since the team's return on Thursday last, there have been light...
Last Saturday afternoon at the Pennsylvania relay meet, Harvard won the mile relay race from Yale, U. of P. Georgetown and Carlisle. The contest was very close, but Fish won the first relay in 51 2-5s. and Vincent won the second in 50 1-5s. Butler, however, weakened considerably and fell just before reaching the tape. Hollister then managed to touch him and though Fisher, Yale's crack quarter-miler had gained a lead of seven yards, the Harvard runner overhauled him and won by five yards. The time for the relay...
...Freshman Debating Club will hold the second of the competitive debates in Sever 11, this evening at 7 o'clock. Twenty men will speak and the judges will select ten who may enter the final contest. These ten speakers will be eligible for membership in the Forum or Union without further trial. Question, "Resolved, That an income tax is a desirable part of a scheme of taxation...
Preliminary contests in the literary halls, to choose representatives for the Lynde debate, have been held. From the American Whig Society, E. G. Elliott, Robert F. Sterling, J. S. Evans and John H. Keener, alternate, were chosen. The representatives from the Cliosophic Society are W. B. Ramsey, H. F. Stockwell, S. S. Yantis, and C. J. Dunlap, alternate. The final contest will be held on the evening of June 15th...
...third annual whist match with Yale, held on Saturday, resulted in a victory for the Harvard team in what proved to be a close contest. The Yale players improved very much at the finish and succeeded in cutting down the big lead which Harvard had won in the first two-thirds of the match, to three tricks, making it the closest match yet played with Yale...