Word: contests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make any comparison of the Harvard and Yale crews impossible but the showing made so far promises one of the closest races in many years. Yale's crew has shown remarkable form in its practices at Gales Ferry so far, and the race will probably resolve itself into a contest for the jump at the start...
...club growth has been in the direction of lessening the importance of the club as a social factor. The club that is little more than a dining place has come into being. The rising tide of study, symbolized in such ninth wave as the interest in the English literature contest and the success of the Reading Period, has overwhelmed the playboy except in that brief period between September and October of the Freshman year and club life in the old people, has largely disappeared when it threatened to take the time of the one outside activity that most...
...Davis Cup committee, Big Bill Tilden and his fellow tennis warriors have sailed to engage in the first Davis Cup matches an American team has played away from home for many years. What the chances are for Tilden, Lott, Hennessey, Hunter and Coen to ensure next year's contest being on American soil will be uncertain for many weeks yet, but for a year at any rate France has the honors. Indeed, for most of the summer the attention of the sporting world will be focused on Europe and the Western Hemisphere will be decidedly in the background until...
...such insuperable advantages of size and abundance of material to draw from that, much to the regret of many who would see a more equal division of the spoils, it is more than likely that her unbroken string of victories will be continued. But the thrills of the contest will be as strong as ever, the tourist army will have a new objective for its interest, and the defeated competitors can look forward to the joy that will be theirs when for the first time they compete chez the great playboy of the Western World--Los Angeles...
...husband, Charles G. Norris, is a writer of note (Bread, Salt, etc.). Last week her son, 16-year-old Frank Norris, 2nd, namesake of Author-uncle Frank Norris (McTeague), student at Tamalpais School, San Rafael, Calif., won first prize in a special essay contest conducted by the Brooks-Bright Foundation. The subject of Son Norris's essay: The effect of the growth of population and diminishing food supply on future relations between the U. S. and Great Britain and their relations to other nations. The contest he won was among schools not members of the Foundation...