Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following are the candidates selected at the preliminary trial, May 1, for the Boylston Prize Speaking, May 13. Seniors : F. H. Allen, Barrows, Bishop, Doane, Gilbert, Hatch, Henderson, Opdycke, A. Perry, W. A. Pew, Price, Rhett. Juniors : Guild, J. R. Howe, H. J. D. Jones, Porter, Reynolds, P. B. Watson, Whitman, F. S. Williams...
...Natural History Society has offered three subjects for prize essays. The first is on the "Dis-semination of Seeds"; second, "Make a Collection of the Plants of one Family and note the Peculiarities of Station of each Plant"; third, "Character of Insects : Sub-orders." The prizes will be awarded, if any essays are deemed worthy of them, in January, 1881. They are : A first prize of $25 to the individual, and some seventy fossils, and ten geological models, to be deposited in his name in the school of which he is a member; a second prize...
...themselves worthy to be sent down as representatives of the College, the Athletic Association will pay all their expenses down and back. If several men excel in any one event, they will all be sent down for that event, so that, even if one happens to lose the first prize at the meeting here, he will still have a chance to compete at Mott Haven if his performance is of sufficient excellence to warrant the Association in sending him. A list of the events to be competed at Mott Haven will be found in our Brevity Column...
...improving the records. By it, not only the champions of the College, but the champions of each class will be given due prominence; and to win his class-championship should be incentive enough for any one to do his best, even if he cannot bear away the highest prize. A system similar to this has largely contributed to the success of the English University athletes. There, each of the more important colleges holds a preliminary meeting, and the winners then compete for the University championship. The principle which has gained ground here of late, in athletics, o making the contests...
...glancing over the list of best records at Harvard, it seems extremely probable that, with the inducement offered in the Echo Prize Medal, several of them will be bettered at the approaching Spring Meeting; and as, however wisely the judges may decide, it would be difficult to give a correct decision as to the respective merits of a man who happened to "break" the record in the Mile Run, for example, and one who secured the Running High Jump, it would seem that dissatisfaction is likely to ensue in the awarding of the trophy. The suggestion therefore may not seem...