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Word: chambertain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...honors in Modern Languages and English will be greeted with pleasure. The more numerous such prizes can be, the better, as they undoubtedly stimulate candidates, and form an additional reason for doing good work on theses that are now perhaps to a certain extent perfunctory. At Yale the Hugh Chambertain prize for the best entrance paper in Greek is considered a great honor. This new prize at harvard will have a similar effect and will also have the advantage of causing the production of good pieces of work with less expenditure of time by the student than would the foundation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/14/1890 | See Source »

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