Word: beste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stationery department has in stock the best blank books that the Society has yet succeeded in getting made. The covers are unusually substantial and the paper clear and strong. The atmospheric ink-stand patented a few years ago has bad but a limited sale on account of its expense: its advantages have been obvious from the start. Recently the makers have reduced the regular price and the Society bought largely to secure the maximum discount...
...regular price of the best selling one is now $1.50. The Society offers this one at 90 cents...
Charles O. Baird, of Philadelphia has given $6000 to Princeton college, from the income of which the following prizes will be given to members of the senior class who excel in oratorical exercises: The Baird prize of $100 to the best speaker of those who have ranked among the best six writers in any two of the departments of English literature, rhetoric and oratory; a prize for oratory of $50 to the best speaker exclusive of the Baird men; a prize for delivery of $30 to the next best speaker; also a prize of $50 for the best poem...
...professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins has given notice that the American Economic Association, of which he is secretary, has received $500, to be awarded as prizes for the best essays on women as wage earners. The prizes will be $300 and $200. The essays must not exceed 25,000 words each and must be in the hands of the association previous to November 1, 1890. Any person is eligible to the competition. This series of prizes will probably be permanent. The next subject will be taxation with a still larger premium. The first competition was on the subject...
...faced each other they appeared to be pretty evenly matched. Princeton had the strongest rush line, but before the game was far advanced, she lost one of her best men. George who had his knee cap hurt and the tendons of his ankle broken, was sent to the Murray Hill hotel in an ambulance and Jones substituted in his place. Rhodes of Yale was ruled off for foul tackling...