Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...personal independence. The remedy suggested for this is that the money be understood as a loan, to be repaid, if possible, after graduation. This might take away part of the sting, but some of the evil effects remain. The system, in fact, is nothing short of offering a prize to young men to adopt a certain profession. A man who enters a profession with the aid of outside means, and not by the aid of his own native talents and feelings, will not do much to ennoble that profession. Besides, according to Adam Smith, it fills the profession with inferior...
...Crimson complains that the athletic meetings are rendered uninteresting and "boresome" by the candidates for the general excellence prize doing the same feats over and over again. This the Crimson hardly thinks a necessary evil, "but if it is," the editorial concludes, "then by all means let us do away with that prize." We do not deny that the events of the meetings are often rendered uninteresting by the repetition of feats, but this objection applies not only to the candidates for general excellence, but to all who are contesting for the prize in almost any event. We must, therefore...
...mile bicycle race; tug-of-war, 600 pounds limit, two substitutes allowed. Open to all amateurs-75-yard run. handicap; 200-yard run, handicap; quarter-mile run, handicap, 30 yards limit; half-mile and mile runs, both handicap; one mile run for men who have never won a first prize at that distance; 600-yard run, L. E. Myers barred; quarter-mile hurdle race; one and two-mile walks, both handicaps; two-mile bicycle race and running high jump, handicap...
...entering for any event unless their chances for success are more than even. Although it is natural that a man should not be disposed to make an effort when he knows it will be in vain, still when there is any possibility of winning even a second or third prize, for the success of the meetings, let him enter and do his best. At our fall meetings, in order to encourage large entries, men who have certain fine records are handicapped, thus giving more likelihood of success to the less experienced contestants. There seems to be no reason why this...
Jere Dunn shot and killed John Elliott; the prize fighter, in Chicago yesterday...