Word: contests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paltry sum of a few dollars which could otherwise be unable to play each other without an outlay of hundreds of dollars. Of course this is only in the nature of an experiment, but the interest lies in the fact that, as far as is known, no such contest has ever been staged...
...seating of the third University crew is at present even more indefinite. The struggle for stroke position is as yet unsettled, the contest being between H. W. Sturges Jr. '30, stroke of the Junior class crew, and R. W. Pearson '31, stroke of the Sophomore class crew. The latter crew will probably furnish the majority of the members of the boat which is sent to Philadelphia, but who they will be or in what positions they will row is not yet decided...
...Beta Kappa game between the Crimson and Blue used to be an annual event but after the 1924 contest the custom was discontinued for some unknown reason. With Yale's acceptance of the challenge of O. S. Loud '29, Marshal of the chapter, it is believed that the yearly custom will be renewed...
...Adopted a resolution to pay Senator-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania $15,907.38 as his expenses in the contest of his election. This resolution in no way altered Mr. Vare's status as a Senator-suspect...
...little theatres of the land are dens of morbidity and exoticism. This fact is always made apparent at Manhattan's annual Little Theatre Tournament. The seventh contest, held last week, was cut to the conventional pattern. Twenty amateur organizations competed, each presenting a one-act play. One group from Denver gave a horrific vignette by Eugene O'Neill in which a white couple and a Negro are shown adrift on a raft in tropic seas. Another Denver company chose for its dramatic locale a rainswept bit of Maine seacoast where the incessant downpour drove a bedraggled housewife insane...