Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...graduates of the Institute of Technology, won the second prize, $3,000, for designs for the new Boston Public Library...
Then, too, there are other memories that will always cling about the hall. What graduate will forget the commencement and class day exercises held in Sander's theatre, the concerts, and lectures, the prize speaking, or the dancing and gaiety, and beauty often enjoyed and seen in the dining hall? The old well-worn bulletin boards come in for their share too. Many times we have read them from top to bottom with their notices of Union debates, of games and sports, of tutoring, and of articles for sale. The bulletin boards come to be regarded as a part...
Instead of pennant for the class wining the greatest number of events in the three meetings, the notice simply says that a prize will be given. Last year '85 won the pennant. A general excellence prize will be given as usual. The events to be contested to win it are the parallel bars, flying rings, horizontal bars, running high jump, two hand vault, and running broad jump. The last event has been substituted for the standing high jump, which formerly was one of the sertes for the general excellence cup. Entries can be made to the secretary of the association...
...literati is looking out for something to occupy his talents over, we would suggest to him that he write for the prize which the Russian Academy offers for the best essay on the life and reign of Alexander I. The minister of Alexander I. left a bequest of 50,000 roubles in charge of the Academy, with the conditions attached that the money, after accumulating for one hundred years, should be given to the writer of the best work on his master the Czar. The Academy, therefore, now announces a prize competition for this bequest. Inasmuch as the original donation...
...following notice was recently read to the Amherst seniors at the opening exercise of the term: "Butler's Analogy at four P. M. -The Prize for the best essay on the Existence of God, has been increased to fifty dollars...