Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last Monday evening, at a meeting of the Brookline Civil Service Reform Association, prizes were awarded to the following-named gentlemen : To Mr. William H. White, Law School, a first prize for an essay on "The Effects of the Spoils System on National Legislation," and to the same gentleman another prize for an essay on "Conflict between the claims of locality and method of competitive examination suggested in the Pendleton Bill;" Mr. Marland C. Hobbs, class of '85, received the third prize for an essay on "The Effect of the Spoils System on National Legislation." Competitors were residents of Brookline...
...boxing, wrestling and fencing good men are always leaving, and, to keep up the standard, new men should come out. New entries are particularly needed for the horizontal bar and for tumbling. For the last two years, that is ever since the institution of the prize, three men have competed for the prize in general excellence, though there have been many other men in college who would have made good contestants in all the events. We hope to see this year a larger number of entries for this prize...
...pole on the green, and to make sure that no athletic sophomore should tear it down the halyards were cut. This was of no avail; one of their number climbed the pole like a monkey and captured the trophy. On reaching the ground a rush was made for the prize, and during the melee the police arrived on the scene making several arrests. The students were made to pay heavily for their sport and the New Haven treasury received a handsome amount to replace the halyards destroyed...
...contributor to the Yale News says: "With the exception of one man we have none upon whom we can count to bear away a prize at Mott Haven...
...about two weeks Mr. Moses King will publish Mr. F. W. Taussig's Toppan prize essey on "Protection to young Industries." It will make a volume of about 100 pages...