Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Football, as is ought to be pursued, is a healthy and invigorating exercise; but experience of the past has abundantly shown that the great Inter-Collegiate games fall little short of being prize fights. Accidents frequently occur, often serious; and ill feeling is engendered between colleges.[Argo...
...Toppan prize of $150 has been awarded to Dr. Edward Channing of the class of '78, instructor in history, for an essay on "Town and County Government in the North American Colonies...
...thus comments on the proposed changes in the foot-ball rules. "There can be no doubt that there is a growing public sentiment against the present style of play. People do not attend games in as large numbers nowadays as they used to do. They are tired seeing a prize fight between ruffians, when they expect to see a spirited game between gentleman. And, in our opinion, there will be no inter-collegiate foot-ball three or four years hence unless referees are secured who have the pluck and disposition to enforce the rules against players who are willing...
...schoolboys and girls does a day's manual labor in the whole year round : indeed the majority of them never did one in their lives. They grow, but they do not develop. It has been argued that the system of athletics generally pursued makes those who practice it essentially prize-fighters, champion oarsmen, "wasting their time and devoting all their thoughts to some feat of athletic prowess." In rebuttal of this statement, Mr. Blaikie instances President Eliot and Professor Agassiz of Harvard and Dr. McCosh and Mr. Gladstone. "Yet the former two did excellent work in their university boat. Princeton...
Miss Agnes Emory won the Howland prize for an essay on civil service reform at the commencement of the University of Kansas...