Word: contests
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...haphazard allotment of seats, and partly to the lack of leadership, the students have not come forth with substantial proof of support. It is devoutly to be wished that tonight, when two teams meet very evenly matched, this defective backing may not be in evidence. If the contest is to be won, it looks as though victory were partly up to the University, and not alone to the team...
...Harvard-Yale contest of any kind scorns introduction. Even when Yale worsts the University at chess in the seclusion of a New York hotel, the defeat is mourned by many who do not know a pawn from a rook. No one need be urged to attend the hockey game tonight; but a reminder that the contest is not yet won, and that whole-heared support from the University is essential, is not amiss...
...most hope only for a tie at the end of the season. In other words, we have less at stake tonight than Yale. While beating a New Haven team is glory enough in itself to call forth the best efforts of the University seven, yet tonight's contest is harder for Harvard than it would be with the circumstances reversed...
...intercollegiate meet for singers-the second annual one-is to be held in New York next month and the University, which won the contest last year, has entered. The contest will be a thorough test of each team's (or glee club's) technique. It is held primarily to improve the standard of college glee clubs, and for this reason the competition idea should spread to all the colleges. The University Glee Club, trained to the last note by a Western trip is sure to uphold the musical prestige of the University...
...held simultaneously in the tank of the Boston Y. M. C. A. on February 13 at 8 o'clock, are now on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's and the Athletic Association Office at 50 cents each. Admission will be 25 cent. This is the University's most important home contest and the last match Freshman schedule...