Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this announcement is made so early, nearly two months before the first day's tournament, and three weeks before the Mid-year examinations, there can be no excuse for not entering the contests in earnest. Every one will expect to see a first-class meeting, and it is to be hoped that there will be no disappointment of expectation. If men will train sufficiently, there is no reason why this tournament should not be even more interesting than those of preceding years...
Applications for membership should be made to Mr. Tucker Burr, 17 Holworthy. As the Association is in need of funds, to buy the prizes necessary for the tournament and for other purposes, those intending to join will facilitate matters by doing so at once...
...entries must be made at the Gymnasium on the Friday preceding each tournament...
...Jarvis rendered meetings impossible. It was owing to the success of this enterprise that Harvard started the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which some ten or twelve colleges joined, and it was at Saratoga last year that this association met for the first time as a regular College organization. The tournaments in the Gymnasium were instituted last year; these contests were generally thought to be an excellent thing in affording an additional opportunity to men of matching themselves, and in giving them more practice for the Saratoga meetings; the number of entries was large and encouraging: this, last year...
...various spreads, etc., could take place on various afternoons, and need not interfere with each other. And if the societies wished to have any special ceremonies of their own they might perfectly well do so. At the same time, a boat-race, a ball-match, and an athletic tournament would be interesting, while the whole might reach a climax in a University ball in Memorial Hall...