Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...facts of the case, as far as they can be ascertained, are the following: There are fourteen shields on the outside of the cup, and each year a shield is engraved with the name of the college that wins the cup, and the names of the first prize winners from that college. About 1879, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association passed a resolution that after the fourteen shields were filled the cup should go to the college which had won the cup the greatest number of years. Princeton, Yale and Columbia have filled one shield each, while the name of Harvard appears...
...annual prize declamation of the Boston Latin School was held last Friday in Tremont Temple. Prizes were assigned to the following men: First prize, A. A. Clatur; second prize, J. T. Coyle, Eugene A. Reed; third prize, J. E. Franie, S. P. R. Chadwick...
...tennis tournament begins this week. There is not much interest taken in the outcome. The winner of the singles will have to play former prize winners for the championship of the college...
...Japanese student has gained the first prize in natural history at the University of Leipsig for a zoological treatise...
...prize of a $500 cup has been offered by the New York Racquet Court Club as a prize for an amateur contest in billiards...