Word: contender
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Odin Roberts '86 has given a silver cup for which the teams will contend. The dormitory winning the cup will be entitled to the possession of it for one year. All Freshmen not on the first squad will be eligible to play...
...been met from the unrestricted funds. Obviously this process cannot continue indefinitely. For this situation, there are three solutions. Either large gifts must be secured promptly, or the equipment of the University must be cut down, or the tuition fee must be raised. No one, upon serious consideration will contend that the $3,000,000 deemed necessary by the committee, can be secured with any promptness. Gifts will no doubt continue as in the past, but the income from them is needed to meet the normal demands of the University and it is unwise to depend solely on gifts...
...trips which are now being considered for next season the prospect is especially encouraging. None of the members of this year's team will be lost by graduation so that Coach Mann will have all the letter men back again as a nucleus for a team with which to contend for intercollegiate honors...
Those who contend that college athletics are only for the few were refuted recently in the statistics presented before the meeting of the National Collegiate Association in Chicago. These statistics, covering the general field of collegiate activities, unquestionably prove that it is the many who derive the benefits of systematic athletic training. Harvard is a typical example. While there are only eighty-two men in the University who have won their "H", the actual number engaged in athletics is over 1,300. Similar facts are evident in all large universities. At Cornell there are some 625 men competing...
...speaking of the work which the Society is carrying on in Europe, Miss Boardman told of the terrible conditions against which the 150 nurses and 43 surgeons representing the American Red Cross, had to contend...