Word: award
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...award of graduate fellowships and scholarships for next year is given below. Those who have received their degrees from other colleges than Harvard have the names of those colleges attached to the degree. The total amount assigned is $18,650, which leaves about $1000 still to be awarded...
...Crandell, chairman of the senior class day committee, has made his report on the cap and gown question and circulars will be sent to the members of the senior class. The award of the contract for the manufacture of the gowns has been delayed owing to the negligence of several of the firms to whom the contract was offered. The cap and gown will be furnished by Cotrell, Leonard & Co., of Albany, N. Y. The Co-operative Society will act as their agents, and measurements may be taken there and the goods will be delivered when finished. The material...
...award of fellowships and scholarships, the preference is given to applicants who have already been in the college, Scientific or Graduate School, for at least one year. However, a number of the minor appointments were bestowed upon persons not connected with the University but who presented testimonials to their unusual merit. The Graduate School, therefore, offers to capable and ambitious students the means of continuing their studies, practically, as long as their industry makes them deserving, and it places the appointment to a fellowship or scholarship clearly in the light of a privilege justly earned rather than in that...
...competitive designs for the chess cup will be handed in by Feb. 1st, and the award made soon after. Meanwhile I shall try to send you the different sets of rules under which the recent tournaments have been played, so that you take into consideration the various points and offer suggestions concerning them. The especial points which the committee are thinking over are whether one or more candidates should come from any special department, also how many games should be played. It wants as broad a representation as possible and a good sure test...
...description of the circumstances under which the translation was produced, has furnished an affecting preface to the volume. Mr. Latham's affliction, his long confinement, his labors, his hopeful struggle against almost overwhelming misfortunes and finally his death before he learned of the unanimous decision of the judges to award the prize to him: - these details form a story of unusual interest in the history of the college life...