Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that compulsory gymnastics will be required of the lower classes. It is stated that the engagement of Prof. P. McClellan, of New York City, who was appointed to the chair a year ago, has been broken because within a week after his appointment he accepted a challenge to a prize-fight for the light-weight championship of America, and the proceeding could not be tolerated by the trustees of the university...
...faculty of Yale College have given out as topics to be written upon by the students competing for the Townsend prize the following: "Regulations of Inter-State Commerce," "Strikes," "Recent Decision of the Supreme Court on the Civil-Rights Bill" and "Government Control of the Telegraph." Congress and the country at large will await the settlement of these important questions with breathless interest. [Lowell Citizen...
Hormuzd Rassam has received the first grand prize of $2400 from the Royal Academy of Science of Turin in consideration of the services he has rendered to science by his Assyrian and Babylonian discoveries, the results of which are deposited in the British Museum...
...Japanese student has gained the first prize in natural history at the University of Leipsig for a zoological treatise...
...subject upon which the Seniors in the Yale Law School, who compete for the Townsend prize of $100 must write, are as follows : 1. "Regulation of Inter-State Commerce." 2. "Strikes." 3. "Recent Decision of the Supreme Court on the Civil Rights Bill." 4. "Government Control of Telegraph." The graduating theses must be written upon the following subjects : 1. "Development of the Law of mortgages." 2. "Estoppel by Silence." 3. "Joint Ownership by Chattles." The subject for those studying for the degree of M. L. is : "The Consolidation of Railways and the Government of Cities." For those...