Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entries for next Saturday, March 25, ladies' day, are running high jump; horizontal bar; double trapeze; tumbling; pole vaulting; flying rings; triple barred eschelle; rope climbing; hitch and kick; tug-of-war (winners at two previous meetings). A special general prize will be given to competitors in each of the following events : Running high jump; horizontal bar; flying rings...
...where shall we begin! What shall we hold up as a prize from the literary game-bag as first worthy of notice! Let general peculiarities be given the first place...
...Luce, '82, and Kent, '82, entered. Neither of these handled the clubs with the ease of Hamlin or Barnes. Kent attempted more difficult feats than his opponent, and his muscular arm seemed never to tire. Toward the last of the five minutes Luce made more frequent changes. The prize was awarded to Barnes, whose swinging has seldom been equalled in the gymnasium...
...Parker as judges; Mr. J. Boyle O'Reilly referee for sparring, and as judges of sparring, Mr. Edward C. Ellis and Mr. Clifford Bryham. Judges of fencing, H. E. Guild and Curtis Guild, Jr. The judge for club swinging will be C. P. Nichols. In addition to the regular prizes for each event, the contestant displaying the greatest proficiency in sparring of all the contestants at the winter meetings, will receive a special prize...
Philip Walker of Paris, a member of the American electrical commission, recently created a knight of the Legion of Honor, offers a prize of $20 to any member of the senior class of the Chandler Scientific School at Dartmouth, for the best thesis on any subject in the department of physics...