Word: winners
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been the intention of the Yale University Boat Club to arrange a contest with this year's winner of the Oxford-Cambridge University race, but owing to the impossibility of fixing upon a date which would be convenient to both, the Y. U. B. C. has decided to enter a crew in the Henley Royal Regatta of 1896. The regatta will take place in the second week of July, and Yale's crew from now on will devote all its efforts in preparing for this contest...
...past. On the night preceding the promenade, the Baird contest in oratory disputation and poetry will be held in examination. This contest is open to some members of the senior class selected for ability in writing, and the main interest in it is due to the fact that the winner of the oratorical contest is usually appointed to be valedictorian on Commencement...
...evening. Four teams competed. The Emmet Guards of Worcester represented the Ninth, the First Regiment team was composed of three Harvard men and W. J. Holland, while two other teams represented the naval brigade. It was a close race, but Holland, for the first regiment, was the final winner...
Eleven of last year's prize winners are now in training. They are Captain Bremer, who won the low hurdles in Cambridge and New York; E. Hollister, who won the half mile in both places; W. H. Vincent, who won the quarter mile at New York, and took second place in the half mile and third in the quarter at Cambridge; C. J. Paine, who last year broke the dual league record of 6 ft. 5/8 in. in the high jump, and won third place in New York; A. Stickney, winner of second place in the broad jump in Cambridge...
...Riggs '98, J. T. Furness '98, H. Clapp '99, H. Bowker '98, R. M. Johnson '98 and P. D. Rust '98. The judges were S. Cabot of the Boston Fencing Club and A. G. Thacher; referee, Professor Rondelle. After some close contests H. Bowker '98, was declared the winner...