Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Editors of the Yale Lit offer a prize medal for the best essay submitted before October 31st...
...following rather curious piece of composition was placed upon the blackboard at a teacher's institute, and a prize of a Webster's dictionary offered to any person who could read and pronounce every word correctly. The book was not carried off, however, as twelve was the lowest number of mistakes in pronunciation made...
...Advocate shows enterprise in offering two Literary Prizes. The first is a prize of $10 for the best story sent in before Jan. 15, 1886; the second is one of the same amount for the best essay contributed during the same period...
...gathered while in Europe in the past eight years. This collection embraced 688 volumes. They are mostly Spanish works, some are Italian, and a few are English. While many of these volumes are very valuable and rare, there is one work that may justly be deemed a prize above all others. This is the Chronicle of Fernando Lopez, in three volumes printed in 1644. Mr. Lowell purchased it at the Sunderland sale in 1882. On the fly leaf of the first volume Mr. Lowell has transcribed the following quotation from a letter which he received from Mr. G. P. Marsh...
Literary anniversaries will occur to-day as follows: Princeton, annual meeting of literary societies, and Lynete prize debate; Cornell class day, address by Prof. Goodwin Smith; Smith, ivy exercises, and college reception; Tufts, alumni meeting, address by Rev. E. C. Sweetser; Lasell, seniors reception...