Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting in the gymnasium this evening the programme will be the same as that of Saturday, with a few changes. The prize for general excellence in sparring will be awarded, and Page and Lee will spar for the middle-weight...
...Morison, '83, was awarded the prize for general excellence, with a record of 40 1/2 points out of a possible 60. Morison's work was done neatly and gracefully throughout...
...second and third turns nearly all the contestants received well-merited applause, and from that time on the applause was nearly continuous. The first exhibition of the "giant swing" was given by Bishop, and was evidently received with more favor than any previous event. The judges awarded the prize to Bishop...
Sullivan, the prize-fighter, declines to meet Eagan with bare knuckles, and so virtually surrenders his title of "champion...
...Christmas vacation. Now, after two-thirds of the year are passed (nearly half of which was lost in many cases), and men had begun to reap their advantages, the whole course is again thrown into confusion. The consequences will be particularly hard on those prospective candidates for the Bowdoin prize speaking, whose work will be interrupted and system of instruction interfered with. The inconvenience and loss of time thus resulting from these two resignations seems to call for a practical reform in the methods of appointing the instructors in elocution. At present the appointments are merely annual, and the subjects...