Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the academic council in offering such liberal terms for the award of these fellowships is but a step in the march of progress which the well-wishers of Harvard desire to see, and will be accompanied with admirable results in increasing the claims of Harvard as the leading university of the country...
...audience waited after the close of the declamation for the announcement of the prizes, which was as follows : First prizes to John Parker Holmes, '84, and Samuel Atkins Eliot, '84 ; second prizes to Henry Elbert Barnes, 84', Bartow Bee Ramage, '84, and Irvah Lester Winter, '85. The award of prizes, as usual, seemed to be a surprize to everybody and hardly recompensed the audience for their patient waiting...
...award of the prizes, it is, perhaps, difficult to speak. Next to the Burrar's lottery, there is no event which results more unexpectedly than the award of the judges in these contests for declamation, and this year has not proved an exception to the general rule...
...Yale have rather incapacitated us for looking with unalloyed delight on the aquatic victories of Harvard, yet in the present instance we confess that we would be more than pleased to see her second eight victorious over the crew which so confidently appealed to the public opinion to award it the championship because no college found it convenient to gratify its frantic demand for a race. [Yale News...
...Grecian faction that it is unjust to the alumni to make the proposed change. For several hundred years the college has required a three-years' course of Greek before the degree of A. B. could be obtained, and if Greek is made elective. It would not be right to award the degree of A. B. to graduates who had elected Greek. If these graduates should receive the degree of Bachelor of Science it would meet this objection, but it is not probable that they would be satisfied with such an arrangement. The experiment of conducting a classic course...