Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cups given by the Bicycle Club to the winners in the several races last fall have been placed in the window of Leavitt and Peirce's. The prize for the first man in the Harvard-Technology road race in December is a silver goblet. It was won by W. B. Greenleaf, '92. A similar goblet is given to T. Barron, '91, the winner in the fall handicap road-race in November. The second and third prizes in the road-race are silver cups, won by W. B. Greenleaf, '92, and R. W. Holmes. There are in addition to these, three...
...meeting of the A. A. U. U. S. in Madison Square Garden last Saturday, Stead, '91, won the 440 yards dash from 15 yards mark in 54 seconds. The prize was a $150 stop watch. J. P. Lee, '91, was scratch in the 75 yards dash with 112 entries and won his first heat in the fastest time-8 1-5 seconds-of any first trial. He was also scratch in 220-yards with over fifty entries, and was third in final heat...
...this winter owing to the lack of interest. The first meeting will be held January 29, and at least one every week thereafter. The meetings will all be handicap. The new men will at first receive the full allowance, and after that be handicapped at their respective records. The prizes will be awarded at each meeting and held until the final, and the man having the best record for points for the year will retain the prize...
...Bowdoin Prize Dissertations for 1887-88 have been awarded as follows...
...play was first represented in 431 B. C., when it gained the third prize only, being judged inferior to the works of Sophocles and of Euphorion, the son of Aeschylus. This shows the comparative popularity of the authors more than the real literary merits of the pieces...