Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...three players who were tied for first place in the chess tournament finally decided to draw lots as to the best means of settling the contest. The drawing gave F. W. Nichols, '92, first prize; F. M. Brown, '90, second, and S. W. Sturgis, '90, third. The games among these players have been so even that several attempts to play off the tie resulted in one victory and one defeat for each man. So much time has been consumed in these matches the only practicable means of finishing the tournament seemed an appeal to chance...
...first prize for 1889, of $250, offered by the American Protective League on "Home production indispensable to a supply of manufactured commodities, etc.," was won by C. D. Todd, University of Wooster, Ohio...
...well attended meeting of the Technology Athletic Club, open to the members of the M. I. T., H. A. A. and B. A. A. was held in Winslow's rink Saturday afternoon. The prize in each event was a silver cup bearing the seal of the club. All the events were well contested and the Technology records for putting the shot and for the running high kick were broken...
...SARGENT PRIZE.The Sargent Prize of $100 is offered this year for the best metrical version (of sufficient merit) of the Fourth Ode of the Third Book of Horace...
Undernraduates and special students of Harvard College, and students pursuing courses of instruction in Cambridge under the direction of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, may compete for this prize. The versions must be deposited in the office of the college faculty on or before May 1, 1889. For further directions see Catalogue...