Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Angell, president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has offered a prize of one hundred dollars for the best essay on "The Effect of Humane Education in the Prevention of Crime." The prize is open to competition by all students of universities and colleges in the United States...
Thomas B. Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, not the seeker for a cabinet place, has promised to Princeton College a fund for the establishment of a prize in the English department to be known as the "Thomas B. Wanamaker English Language Prize...
...junior appointment list was made public on Friday evening, and showed that the class of '90 had beaten the record made by '84, for the present junior class had 104 men on the list. Of these, 60 are eligible to write for the junior exhibition prize-an opportunity that few will neglect...
...first prize for the high jump will be a cup, the base of which will be made of cut glass and the bowl, artistically arranged to fit in it. The prize for putting the shot will be an etched oxidized ornament which will stand about nine inches high. Both contests will be handicap and open to all members of the university, with a liberal handicap...
...Academy of Syracuse, New York. has offered a prize of fifty dollars for an essay on the subject of "Teaching English in Secondary Schools." Any one is allowed to compete for the prize, which is to be awarded not so much upon literary excellence as upon the practicability of the ideas which are presented for the teaching of English in preparatory and public schools...