Word: contested
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...prefers things familiar and worthy to extravagant, exotic, and often bloodthirsty world premieres: while the Transcript deplores the sinking of the Harvard Dramatic Club to the rank of a second-rate Stock Company, and transfers its publicity from the theatre page to the Schoolboy Notes. The tragedy of this contest lies in the fact that both editors have right on their side and would seem to have the same aim: that the Harvard Dramatic Club should contribute something to drama. The Transcript reviewer probably displays discretion in presuming that the production of "Liliom" would add little to the earlier performances...
Pennsylvania Republican primaries are notoriously extravagant. Some two million dollars was spent by three Senate candidates in the 1926 contest which resulted in the Vare nomination and scandal. Nebraska's Senator Norris has already moved to keep the Grundy-Davis campaign expenditures under strictest scrutiny by a special Senate committee...
...events on both days will be the same, including the 50-yard, a 100-yard, and a 200-yard swim, as well as a 100-yard back stroke and 200-yard breast stroke contest. The diving will be judged on four required and four optional dives. The dormitory or fraternity whose entrants amass the largest number of points through placing in the various events will be awarded the meet. On each day there will be a 100-yard relay, four pick-up teams of four men on a side, with the winners slated to appear in the new pool...
Last year's team was successful in the intercollegiate division, defeating the Pennsylvania Military Academy in the final contest, by the score of 6 1-2 to 6. Several of the players on the championship team were lost, however, by graduation and the total handicap of the trio is four goals, this year, a drop of ten from last year's amount...
...Rowe '27, coach of the University debating team, announced late last night that he had received a wire from E. T. Williams, secretary of the Yale Debating Association, stating that the Yale authorities have decided to temporarily discontinue their usual policy of but a single contest with the University and to have two debates with the Harvard Debating team this year. The second debate will be held late in April to discuss the Harvard Debating Council's plan for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. This reestablishes the debating relations which have existed for many years between Harvard, Yale...