Word: contests
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second of a series of three handicap field event competitions, similar to those conducted last fall, will be held in the baseball cage at Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. This afternoon the contests will be in the broad jump and shot-put and tomorrow the high jump and pole vault competitions will be held. The third contest in each event will be held at a date to be decided upon later. The winners of the greatest number of points in each series will receive cups. Entries may be made with Coach Quinn at the Cage before each...
...heretofore ratified originated in the Congress. Most of them are almost as old as the Constitution itself, and were considered when the Constitution was under consideration for ratification or rejection, and were informally endorsed when it was ratified. One other amendment came as a result of the Jefferson-Burr contest for the Presidency. Three amendments--the only ones made in the last hundred years--are the Constitutional product...
...University crew will row Cornell on Gaynga Lake, Ithaca, on May 30 over a two-mile course. This will be the first time a University crew has ever rowed at Ithaca, although the second crew has raced there before. It will also mark the third contest between Cornell and Harvard first crews, the other two races having been rowed over the one and seven-eighths mile course in the basin during the last two years. In both these contests the Harvard eight was defeated by Cornell...
...shot-putting contest yesterday afternoon was won by G. G. Glass '08, handicap 6 ft., distance, 42 ft. 7 in.; second, B. T. Stephenson, Jr., '08, scratch, distance, 42 ft. 4 1-2 in.; third, C. C. Little '10, handicap 2 ft. 6 in., distance...
...cover their men. The University forwards found great difficulty in getting away with the puck, and were continually impeded in shooting by their opponents. The first half was uneventful compared with the second, and when, towards the end of the match the teams were alternating in the lead the contest was most exciting for the large number of spectators...