Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which was almost starving, was upon the point of mutiny. He determined to surrender. On the third, the day when Lee's last charge on the Gettysburg heights had failed, Pemberton made terms with Grant. On the next day an army of 30,000 men and the long coveted prize, Vicksburg, fell into the hands of Grant. Johnston was also driven away by Sherman. Four days later, Port Hudson, lower down the river, surrendered to General Banks. The Mississippi was then open from source to mouth, and the Confederacy...
...entirely a matter of speculation as to which class will receive it. It is certainly an honor worth working for and ought to stimulate each class to see that it is well represented in each contest, so that it may have a fair chance of securing it. Such a prize should go to the class that really deserves it, and any such class will have only themselves to thank if it falls into the hands of another...
...standing of the classes for the pennant is: '85, three first prizes; '87 one first prize; '86, one first and one second place; '84, (if Mr. Bangs is counted as that class) two first; L. S., one first prize. '87 also has gained one step towards...
...custom of placing the prize cups for the winter meetings in Bartlett's window seems to have been abandoned...
...Lewis E. Gates will read his Bowdoin Prize Dissertation, on "Sir Thomas Browne," this evening...