Word: medals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Jones, '88, chairman of the Exeter Lit, has offered a gold medal to that member of the nine who shall have the best record in base-sliding at the end of the season. The Oxonian has offered a similar medal to the man who gets the highest batting average...
...amount of $300 are offered for excellence in Greek and Latin. In addition there are awarded in the mathematical department prizes to the amount of $400 for excellence in that branch of study. It has been the custom of the Cobden Club of London, to offer annually a medal for the greatest proficiency in the science of political economy. This offer is open to any undergraduate of either the Academic or the Shefflield scientific departments...
...start will be from Fort George Atlantic Hotel, Tenth Avenue and 19lst street, New York, at 10.30 a. m. The run will cover about six miles. There will be six valuable prizes. To the first man in who belongs to an organized foot-ball team, a special prize-a medal-will be given. The entries will close February 17 with Mr. T. Avery Collett, secretary, P. O. box 2872, New York City. The entrance fee is one dollar...
...large number of men practising for running and jumping. The outlook for winning the first and second bicycle prizes at Mott Haven in the spring is good. As the first of the winter meetings takes place so soon, the contestants are working more regularly. The contest for the medal for excellence on the horizontal bar will be very close. Men are daily practising on the rings and at tumbling. AS there are at present no rooms devoted to fencing and sparring, the contests in these branches are uncertain. The tug-of-war team are not working very hard...
...January number of the Yale Literary Magazine contains the article on "University Life," by Herbert Smith, '89, for which he received the Lit medal...