Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...decisions of the judges of the Bowdoin prize essays have been rendered. Mr. W. C. Smith, '85, S. D. Richardson, '86, and T. P. Sanborn, '86, received prizes of $100, $75, and $50 respectively. No prize was awarded for essays in group I, and the report is not ready on those of group...
Besides the honor of being on the second nine, there are some advantages worth mentioning. From it, of course, the substitutes for the university nine will be taken. The best batter in it will receive a prize, as we mentioned some time ago, which has been offered by the base-ball association. This will be of no little value and well worth working for. Moreover, class nines are to be organized this spring to contest for a class championship and a pennant. Men who come forward now and try for the second university nine, will be in good trim...
...while the wrestling surpassed anything that has been witnessed at a winter meeting for many years past. The greatest interest, of course, centered in the tug-of-war, which, as seems to have become an established custom of late years, was won by the freshmen. A glance at the prize-winners shows that '86 stands first, having won three events; '87 second, with two prizes; '85 and the Medical School third, with one prize each. The summary of the meeting follows...
...William Collins Whitney, secretary of the navy, was educated at the preparatory school in Easthampton, and entered Yale college in 1859. He was a classmate of Prof. Summer, with whom Mr. Whitney divided the first prize for English essays. At graduation, he was chosen to deliver the class oration. He graduated from the Harvard law school...
...Club at its last meeting voted to have a shingle, designed by members of the club. The designs will be on exhibition in the rooms, and that receiving the most votes, will be adopted. To make the plan more popular, a prize has been offered to the member whose design is successful...