Word: prize
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...prize is too lofty for them to decline...
...learn that there was much surprise felt in New Haven at the tone of the last Advocate in its criticism of the football match. The Yale students, it seems, had no idea that we could complain of our treatment there or could protest against the prize-fighting element of which they make a specialty. Of course, when a person does an ungentlemanly action, and then declares that he did not know it was ungentlemanly, while we pity his ill-breeding, it is useless for us to argue the point with him. And however unsatisfactory this may appear, it seems...
...government of the Union is intrusted to a President, elected by the members, - perhaps the highest social prize at Oxford, - and to a Board of Directors. The only paid official is the superintendent or steward...
Messrs. W. H. Herrick, '82, and S. Williston, '82, entered in the mile maiden-race for riders that had never taken a prize. Williston reserved himself till the fourth lap; and then, by a brilliant spurt, he took the lead, and won by a hundred yards...
April 18. - Last chance to draw in the great collegiate lottery presided over by the Bursar. Tickets from $25 to $300. Prize in every package...