Word: contests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow evening the CRIMSON will open its first Freshman competitions. Perhaps it would be well to pause here a moment. Since the earliest CRIMSON days there has always been a certain glamor about the first Freshmen competition which finds no exact counterpart in any of the later contest. It is still an honor to be the first man in the class to make the CRIMSON and although the distinction may make no practical difference on the Board itself, there is a traditional respect paid to the editor who led his Freshman competition. Whether he attains any higher office...
...candidates for the University debating teams which will take part in the Intercollegiate Triangular debate the later part of February will be held Thursday at 4 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, it was announced last night by A. F. Reel '28, president of the debating council. The contest is open to all students in the College and Engineering School...
...Freshmen were victorious in their contest last Saturday with the Exeter Academy quintet. Milton has won three and lost three of its games this year...
Pool will play M. P. Baker '25, national squash champion, tomorrow for the State title. Baker will represent the Boston Athletic Association in the contest...
This particular account of a candidates impressions is in many respects the life-like, but not uncommon story of keen contest, disappointment, weariness, excitement, and the fascination of a newspaper office. But it also suggests another factor which is particularly important in college journalism, and which goes further than anything else to explain why great numbers of American college students will devote themselves body and soul to the pursuits of news and an editorship...