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...decided to establish a prize fellowship of the annual value of $500, to be conferred on the member of the graduating class selected by the Faculty for ability and fitness for the duties of an instructor. Prizes of $150, $100, and $75 will be established for the seniors who excel in scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/18/1891 | See Source »

Hopkinson is the present holder of the cup. The contest between this school, the Roxbury Latin and Worcester Academy was very close and exciting. Saturday's games, however, will probably excel even last year's meeting in interest. The officers of the association are as follows: President, G. Crompton, W. A.; vice-president, W. J. Batchelder, R. L. S.; secretary, C. Brewer, Hop.; treasurer, A. Bullock Dalzell; executive committee, E. C. Moen, H. A. A., R. S. Hale, J. C. Lee, F. C. Green. Undergraduates, G. Crompton, W. A.; C. H. Mills, Hop.; S. Sanford, F. C.; W. J. Batchelder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Officers for the Interscholastic Meeting Saturday. | 5/27/1891 | See Source »

...Colorado," "The Medical School," and "Harvard in Literature." In replying to "Harvard Athletics," D. H. B. Whitney said that he should send his son not to the college that has gained the most victories, but to the college that gave the best balance of power between the desire to excel in athletics sports and the ultimate intellectual ends for which the college was established...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rocky Mountain Harvard Club. | 6/9/1890 | See Source »

...rumored that a new dormitory is to be erected on Oxford Street by western capitalists, which is to excel any of the present buildings in the elegance and convenience of its appointments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/31/1890 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/29/1889 | See Source »

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