Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adams House defeated Lowell House yesterday in the first play-off game of a three game series by a 21-12 score. The contest was even at the half at which time the score was 9-9, but the Adams reserves turned the tide in the second period. Howard W. Huntington '34 of Adams starred, netting ten points for the winners...
...advantage in being the faster club, however, the Crimson seemed unable to take advantage of all the opportunities which were presented. On the other hand, Yale capitalized practically all its chances, and certainly received the breaks for the evening. Play was hard and fast during the entire contest, while both teams displayed for the most part as excellent brand of hockey. During the first period especially, Ray Townshend in the Yale net was called upon to make many spectacular saves as the Crimson club intermittently put on the foil pressure of a five-man offensive. Captain Paul deGive of Harvard...
Running independently, Milton J. Green '34, of the Varsity track team, gained second place in the 45-yard high hurdles event in a meet held Saturday night in the Rhode Island Auditorium at Providence. The contest was sponsored by the Rhode island Athletic Club...
...prizes are probably endowed unchangeably by probated wills. As a stimulus to interest in the style of public speaking they have some value, but the prizes would serve to greater purpose if they also encouraged interest in the substance of public speaking. If, instead of an old-fashioned elocution contest, they provided for an equally old-fashioned, but still valuable oratorical contest, they would continue to fulfill the original purpose of their donors. Not only would they encourage public speaking, but they would encourage public thinking, a lost art for which there might well be some reward...
...upset. They sank into the depths before they went to Canada, rising only to fall back again after their spectacular game with McGill at New Haven in which the Northerners just managed to win, 3-2. A gradual comeback culminated in the 7-2 victory over the Tigers, a contest that saw the Elis at their best display a fast coordinated attack that ripped the Orange and Black wide open...