Word: list
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following-named is the list of competitors for the Boylston prizes, with the subjects for declamation...
...subjects that many of our Western exchanges delight to treat of are sometimes truly formidable. A curious and interesting list might be compiled on these attempts at literary greatness. "Women in Literature," "Patriotism as a Virtue," or "The Saracens in Europe," are truly subjects that would do honor to a Bowdoin prize essayist, but must fill the reader of a college magazine with dismay...
...list of speakers for the Boylston prizes next Thursday will be posted Tuesday noon...
...June 28 the alumni of Harvard College will elect seven gentlemen to fill the vacancies which then occur in the Harvard board of overseers. The committee for the alumni appointed to receive nominations of candidates has already reported a list of twenty-eight names to select from. It is stated that a determined effort will be made by certain physicians among the alumni and others interested, to induce their friends to vote for Messrs. William G. Russell, Charles H. Dalton, Leveret Saltonstall, Charles F. Adams, Jr., Samuel A. Green, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Richard Olney, as they are understood...
...strange how little attention is paid by Harvard men to some of the sports which figure on the list at the inter-collegiate games. For instance, the shot and hammer are suffered to rest, while dozens of men run on the track. One or two contestants in these sports revel in a sort of solitary training, and are sure of success from a total absence of competitors. If some of the heavy men would so far sacrifice themselves as to try a few feats daily, or to throw the hammer every afternoon, they would probably discover that this sport...