Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Marland Cogswell Hobbs, '85, the winner of the Sumner prize for graduates, was a former president of the CRIMSON board...
...Sumner Prize Dissertation. "The experience of the past half-century in the light it throws upon the possible general resort to arbitration as a substitute for war." Mr. Marland Cogwell Hobbs. Sever...
...Sumner Prize Disertation. "The experience of the past half-century in the light it throws upon the possible general resort to arbitration as a substitute for war. Mr. Marland Cogswell Hobbs. Sever...
...counted a larger proportion in base ball, in lacrosse, or even in the usual course of regular gymnastic training. But no comment is too harsh to represent the ordinary estimate of foot-ball. It is "brutal," it is "ungentlemanly," it is "closely allied to the manners of the prize ring," it is "barbaric," it is "dangerous;" and no representation of friend or lover is strong enough to do away with the rudeness of impression which a first sight of its tremendous activity conveys to the unused intelligence of one beholding it for the first time...
...would be amusing, if it were not interfering with the proper understanding of a vital subject, to read, within a day or two, in the columns of one of our city journals, which has over and over again devoted half a page to minute and brutal accounts of a prize fight, an indignant paragraph on the "barbarism" and "run-a-muck culture" of the Harvard-Princeton game. It declares: "The fierce tumult of young passins, the battered features, the contused limbs, the broken bones, the sprains and welts, and gashes, and bloodstains that made the record of last Saturday...