Word: knights
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...middle ages, a knight did not attempt to carry off the honors of a tournament for the intrinsic value of the prize he won. What he wanted was the applause of the populace, and more than that the congratulations of his particular friends. With no one to cheer him on, no one to care whether he won or lost, there would have been nothing to force him to his utmost. So it is today. Everyone can perform heroic deeds if only someone to whom he wishes to be a here is looking...
This is partly owing to ignorance of their existence and nature. The Dante Prize, the Sales Prize for Spanish students, the Summer and Bennett Prizes in political science, the Boott and Knight Prizes in musical composition. The very desirable Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for amateur poets, the Potter prizes in Comparative Literature,--these are some of the most important of the other rewards offered for intellectual effort. They are often overlooked, not only by the diffident or lazy, but by men who confine their competition to the Bowdoin Prizes. There are also prizes exclusively for Freshmen,--the Belknap in French...
...following appointments were made: C. E. Glock, A. C. Hanford, H. G. Knight '13, G. H. McCaffrey '12, Pitman B. Potter '14, Assistants in Government; N. S. Stern '12, Teaching Fellow in Physiology; R. F. Shaner, Teaching Fellow in Histology and Embryology; W. T. Bovie '14, Research Fellow in the Cancer Commission; A. L. Butler, Austin Teaching Fellow in Botany; R. E. Rockwood, L. B. Struthers '10 Instructors in French; W. H. Thomas, W. B. Perry, Instructors in Architectural Design...
...graduates for essays in Greek and Latin. Manuscript is also due today for the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for the best poem entitled "Belgium"; for the Harvard Menorah Society Prize; for the Francis Boott Prize for an original composition in vocal music, and for the George Arthur Knight Prize for an original composition in instrumental music...
Tomorrow is the last day for receiving dissertations and essays for the following prizes: the Bowdoin Prizes for original composition in English, Latin, and Greek; the Harvard Menorah Society Prize; the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for a poem entitled "Belgium"; the Francis Bott Prize and the George Arthur Knight Prize for original composition in music; and theses of candidates for the degree of Ph.D. in 1915 in the Division of Ancient Languages, of Modern Languages, and of History, Government, and Economics. It is also the last day for receiving applications of candidates for second-year lionors, and the names...