Word: contests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...final contest for the Boylston Prizes takes place in the Sanders Theatre at two o'clock on the day before Class...
...anticipatory contest for the Boylston Elocution Prizes took place on Wednesday, and the following were chosen to speak...
...thereupon, then, followed the contest of leaping over barriers while running; and two contending, the swiftest conquered, as was likely...
...after these things there was a contest of depositing in a pail fifteen vegetables arranged in order; and many contended, not much skill being needed, and there was much laughter among those beholding...
...last of all there was a race of three legs, which contest is of this sort: two youths being bound together as to their inner legs, endeavoring thus to run, fall on the ground many times, as is likely. And the race was won by two youths, more young and tender than their companions, and called by them Freshmen...