Word: contests
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...preliminary trial to select the speakers to compete in the final contest for the Boylston Prizes in elocution will be held in Sanders Theatre, on Wednesday morning, May 6, at 9 o'clock. Professor G. P. Baker, Professor J. H. Ropes and a third person to be selected later will act as judges at this trial, from which ten or twelve men all be retained to speak at the final contest, which will be held in Sanders Theatre on Thursday, May 14. The list of the competitors will be made public next Monday or Tuesday...
...five members, of the University Whist team, which defeated Yale on March 28 by 7 tricks, will graduate this year, the Whist Club will hold a contest tonight to obtain new material for next year's team. It will take the form of an open pair match, and will be held in the Union at 7.30 o'clock. Cups have been offered for the winning pair...
...team will play its first game of the season this afternoon with the University of Maine on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock. As neither team has yet played a game, there is no standard for comparing their strength, but the game last year was close and a hard contest is expected today...
...College at the Hyde Park High School in Chicago. In his junior year at Beloit College, Beloit. Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 1899, he debated on his college team which defeated Knox College, at Galesburg, Illinois. In his senior year he represented his college in the state oratorical contest, and won the privilege of representing the state of Wisconsin in the inter-state oratorical contest held at Lincoln, Nebraska. He is taking a special course in English at Harvard...
Fletcher Bernard Wagner 1L., attended the Indianapolis High School, where he was president of the High School "Senate" and represented the school in the state oratorical contest. He graduated from Stanford University. California, where he was a member of two debating teams against the University of California, winning the Carnot medal presented by Baron Pierre de Coubertin for debate. He was an editor of the Daily Palo Alto, the Sequoia and the Chaparral. He is a member of the Witenagemot Law Club...