Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow's contest will be held following a dinner in Worcester for the Crimson team. The outcome will be based on decision by judges. Holy Cross has the advantage of having already debated on this subject three or four times...
...election is now being carried out, it resembles a popularity or bathing-beauty contest more than it does an election of class officers. These officers are mere figureheads under the present system; therefore, we feel that if there are going to be officers, they should be intrusted with some responsibilities other than appearing at the Freshman Jubilee...
Paul M. Heffernan, Harvard, formerly of Iowa State College, will contest for the coveted foreign study art prize with representatives of Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and New York. Originally there were 329 entrants in this national competition. The four survivors will be required to compete again in June for the final award. The Harvard man's drawing will be on exhibition with his colleagues' at Society's headquarterers here until next Saturday night...
Life quickens in an ectasy of timbrels and dancing. In the great theatre of the Wine God slaves begin to arrive with pillows to await their masters. Behind the scene carpenters are shouting angrily. Euripides, one of the competitors in the play contest, has invented some new stage machinery and sound effects that don't work properly. The audience begins to arrive and the great citizens reclaim their pillows. White-robed thousands stream in to fill the amphitheater row by row up to the top. At last a trumpet blows, the roar of sound fades into silence--and Medea begins...
...shows until 3 in the morning. In a public wedding one Carl H. Burg, dressed as a Spanish caballero, was married to one Margaret E. Clark, clad in a wedding gown of tobacco leaves. A Cuban girl named Pilar Farfante and a man named Manuel Perez won the cigarmaking contest, she rolling her two cigars in 4 min. 35 4/5 sec., he in 2/5 sec. less. The decks were cleared for Dancer Nicki Leoni, who appeared in a disappointingly simple evening gown of native design. As the music grew faster and the dance grew hotter, she stripped off her dress...