Word: contested
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Like a rat in a corner," as he said himself, he was driven to seek and win the Republican nomination of 1912 over Roosevelt's opposition. Then followed the three-cornered contest between a Yale man, a Harvard man, and a Princeton man for the Presidency. Everybody loved "Bill" Taft but love does not always make votes. Taft was ignominiously defeated. Though Connecticut went for Woodrow Wilson in that election, Taft had the satisfaction of beating Roosevelt in the state...
...years standing from the Eli basketball team, the University quintet will board the train for New Haven at 10 o'clock this morning, prepared to face its opponents tonight with its strongest front. The two Freshman teams will play at 7.15 o'clock as a preliminary, and the final contest between the University teams will probably start about an hour later...
Harvard, on the contrary, has shown a steady improvement in the past, fortnight. Since its defeat at the hands of Penn nearly three weeks ago and since the return of P. W. Mahady '31, the Crimson quintet has not lost a single contest, and has triumphed over Union, Dartmouth, and Brown in succession. Coach Wachter has called the 1930 group the best-balanced Crimson team he has ever coached...
...preliminary competition for the Boylston and Lee Wade public speaking prizes, which was held yesterday in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum, twelve men out of a field of forty were picked for the semi-final contest, to be held Tuesday afternoon...
Thirty-nine contestants for the Boylston and Lee Wade public speaking prizes will meet, this afternoon, in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum, in a preliminary contest to choose the ten final contestants...