Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have been published by the "Old Corner Bookstore," and Lothrop & Co., of Boston, and E. P. Dutton of New York, all meeting with success, was initiated as an honorary member of the Signet on Friday evening. He read an admirable historical poem, entitled, Judas Maccabus, which was awarded a prize last year at Andover Theological Seminary. Mr. Shurtleff is one of the contributors to "Songs of Harvard...
...Marland Gogswell Hobbs. A. B. 1885, of the Law School, a prize of $100 for a dissertation on "The Twelfth Article of Jay's Treaty...
...Charles Francis Adams Currier, of the senior class, a prize of $75 for a dissertation on "The Treatment of the American Loyalists during and after the Revolutionary...
...sophomore class of Rutgers College has presented to the faculty a petition for a sophomore exhibition. This is decidedly an evidence of increasing devotion to study on the part of the students. The sophomore exhibitions, at which members of the class contested publicly for a prize in oratory, were abolished several years ago by order of the faculty, because the students ceased to take an interest in the contests, and they were miserable failures, and often of disorder among students who attended...
...stated that a prize of $1,500 is given yearly at Princeton to the sophomore who passes the best examination in classics...