Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those not winning first or second prize who cover the distance in 1 h. 10 min. will receive cups. Only members of the Harvard Bicycle Club can receive prizes or cups. Men may join any time before the race. All contestants must meet at the gymnasium at 2.30 p. m. promptly. The finish will be near the Mt. Auburn bridge over railroad, a little after four. As every single man has announced his determination not to win a prize, but merely to go in for the fun of the thing, a lively race is anticipated...
...Sumner Prize for '86 and '87 has been awarded to Marland Cogswell Hobbs, A. S., of the law school, for the best essay on the subject, "The experience of the past half century in the light it throws upon the possible resort to arbitration as a substitute...
...University Chess Club voted at its last meeting to offer a prize to be competed for by all mbers of the University in a chess tournament. It will consist of a handsome set of chess men. There will also be a second prize. A book has been placed at Bartletts for entries, in which will be found the rules under which the tournament will be played. The entrance fee is only twenty-five cents, so it is hoped the number of entries will be large, and that they will be made as soon as possible, since it is desirable that...
...White, the instructor in athletics of the University of Pennsylvania, has offered, in the name of the University, a prize for general excellence in athletics to the members of the principal Philadelphia schools...
...Some twenty young athletes examined their jammed-up faces, strained muscles and broken bones with considerable interest to-day. The other two who played foot-ball at Cambridge yesterday, somehow came out looking tolerably unlike prize-fighters the day after. A couple of young men, including Captain Holden, who lay Saturday night about as nearly knocked to pieces without being killed as a young man could, were seriously damaged. The fact is, Saturday's game at Harvard was recklessly rough and full of slugging...