Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia bicycle prize cup offered by the Pope Manufacturing Company, to be competed for in amateur twenty-mile bicycle races, is in the form of a solid silver horn, resting at one part of it on a bronze pedestal and steadied by two dragon's legs, the whole standing about fifteen inches high. The cup is in the general style of the old Scandinavian (and Celtic) drinking horns of the eighth and ninth centuries. The horn is about four inches in diameter at the largest part, gracefully shaped, the ornamentation being of frosted, smooth-polished, oxidized, and hammered surfaces, with...
Three Americans have been awarded medals at the Paris Salon-Pearce, Whistler and Dannat. The fortunate owner of Pearce's prize picture, "Perlude," is John A. Lowell of Boston...
Were you an editor of any of the college papers? State what prize or honors you obtained, if any. Of what college societies were you a member? Mention any offices you held in these societies; also any class or college appointments. State any positions you held in either the freshman or University crew, nine or eleven. Name any prizes in athletic contests which you have received. With whom did you room? In what studies were you especially interested...
...Boylston prize speaking on Thursday evening was well attended and the speaking as a whole fully equalled, and, in our opinion, surpassed, that of last year. Mr. Jones deserves great credit, as a large part of the excellence of the speaking was due to his unaided efforts. We agree with the Crimson and Advocate that it is more just for all competitors to declaim in English, though the terms of the donation allow, in addition. Latin and Greek pieces. Though the speaking this year contained few pieces of a dramatic character, the fact that two pieces of this nature received...
...Marsh, '83, will read his Bowdoin Prize Essay on "The Revival of Greek Learning in Italy" in Sever 11 this evening...