Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is to be a competition every Saturday until the first of March. A first prize will be given in each of the above events for the best combined score in height or distance. A second prize is also offered, its nature to be determined after the second competition. Time for practice and coaching will be arranged by Mr. Lathrop for those who hand him their names as competitors. The first competition will take place next Saturday...
...early to prophesy, nevertheless we feel sure that Harvard will be successful in the inter-collegiate games this spring. The number of candidates to choose from is very large, and some of them ought to make good men. We have lost several of the men who won prizes for us in New York last year, but we are sure their places will be filled from last year's non prize winners, or from new men. When the track opens, Mr. Lathrop will give his personal instruction to the men, and success of the past two years is sufficient to guarantee...
College sympathy and encouragement was not lacking. Prize bats and balls were offered as incentives to good batting and fielding large audiences followed the team to its games, and "playing ball in the yard. . . . superceded some of the good old customs of running foot-races, playing marbles in front of Holworthy, and other irregular practices which the seniors used to indulge in." Every class had a nine, nearly all of which had inter collegiate matches. The Law School had a nine. Scientific School had a nine. Everybody was wild over base-ball and 10,000 people it is estimated, stood...
During the year "great efforts were made," says the Advocate, "to arrange a base-ball tournament between all the eastern colleges; such a tournament to be held every year at Worcester, and to have a silver ball as the prize for that college which should beat the most games." "The colleges which have proved true to their agreements" (in this matter,) said the Hamilton Campus, "are Harvard, Dartmouth and Hamilton. The prospect of an exciting and satisfactory contest being thus defeated by the withdrawal of Yale, Princeton and Williams, it has been thought best to indefinitely postpone the tournament...
...following morning will consist of four orations, by representatives of the four classes, the Senior oration being a humorous and witty production. The college orchestra will furnish the music on this occasion. The winter sports will be held in the gym. in the afternoon, and in the evening a prize debate for the "class of '78 prize." The debate will be between four men, each class being represented...