Word: award
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University meeting in Sanders Theatre. Announcement by the President, of the award of academic prizes...
...announcement of the award in the Advocate Prize Essay contest was made at the recent forty-sixth annual dinner and reunion held at the Hotel Victoria, Boston. In the graduate competition the outcome was so close that the first and second prizes, together consisting of $250 were divided equally between W. C. Greene '11, of Baltimore, Md., for an essay entitled "New Wine and Old Bottles," and C. Warren '89, of Boston, who wrote on "A Plea for Personality in Professors." No first prize was awarded in the undergraduate competition since the judges considered no essay to be of sufficient...
...awarding of scholarship distinctions and election to Phi Beta Kappa have often been severely criticized on the ground that there exists no just basis for determining relative rank. Because of the wide variations in the standards of marking on the part of different professors, two pieces of equally good work very often receive varying marks. In certain courses the Rank List will show that about 20 per cent of the members received grade A, whereas in others only 4 or 5 per cent are A men. How, then, are the records of men graded according of different standards...
...developed in the remaining time, with the aid of the instructors in the various schools. At the close of the competition, on April 3, the ten best drawings from each school will be submitted to the judging committee, consisting of one representative from each of the competing schools. The award of prizes will be determined on the value of final drawing as a development of the first sketch. The competitors will be divided into two classes, one for fourth and fifth year men, the other for men with less instruction. A prize of $90 is offered in the first class...
...pounds--Ingraham defeated H. W. Bradley '12, in 7 minutes, 47 seconds; 125 pounds--Nute defeated H. B. Good-friend '14, by award in 6 minutes; 135 pounds--Colver defeated J. Murdoch 1G.S. in 6 minutes; 145 pounds--Little defeated W. R. Tyler '14, by award in 9 minutes; 158 pounds--Avery defeated J. F. Stambaugh '13, in 2 minutes, 42 seconds; 175 pounds--Newbury defeated E. R. McCall '13, in 26 minutes; Heavyweight--Perry defeated J. Coulson, Jr., '13, in 2 minutes, 32 seconds...