Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both Bowdoin prizes, for the best translations, in Latin and in Greek, submitted to the Department of Classics, were won by John Primott Redcliffe Maud '29, of London, England. Each of these prizes was $50. The John Osborne Sargent prize of $100 for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace was awarded to Gerald Frank Else '29, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Honorable Mention went to David Demarest Lloyd '31, of Plainfield, New Jersey, and Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson '32, of Tuckahoe, New York...
...Sales Prize of $60 to the best scholar in Spanish was awarded to Frederic Kappeler Arnold '29, of Framington Centre with Ernest Martin '29, of Taunton receiving honorable mention. The Jeremy Belknap Prize of $50 for the best French composition written by a first year student in the college or Engineering School was awarded to Bertram Henry Schaffner '32, of Eric. Pennsylvania, and Honorable Mention was made of Ernest Julian Greenhood '32, of Brookline, and Jacob Canter '32, of Newton...
Dartmouth sends down a well-balanced team for a dual meet. With only a few outstanding stars, the Indians will present strength in practically every event sufficient to pick up a few points all along the line. Jerry Swope leads the invaders as captain and as the best middle distance runner in this part of the country. As anchor man of the Dartmouth mile relay team that won the national title at Philadelphia last month, he stepped the final quarter in 48 4-5 seconds...
...oldest, best established and most widely accepted method is through lobbying. The next step led to an effort to increase the number of small stock holders, who would naturally support the company in any conflict with the state. This also has been recognized as a sound and fair business method. The most recent efforts, however, have taken on a different form, and have been directed towards capturing public opinion. The newspapers and schools, as the most powerful mediums in this field, have felt the business man's hand in no uncertain way, and in both cases exploitation took place under...
...whole idea of having the Freshmen together for one year is to give them a chance to get acquainted with one another, and to give them that class consciousness which, if not important during their college days, is very necessary afterwards. The first year is the best year for a class to be together since, by the Senior year other acquaintanceships have been made, some have dropped a class while still others have had their names completely erased from the college records...