Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...presented themselves to try for positions was gratifying, but Harvard has especial need of a strong team this year. Yale came very near wresting the cup from us last lear, and judging from the present outlook she will make the contest even closer this spring. The men who won prizes for Yale are almost, without exception, still in college; while we have lost Baker, the winner of the 220 yards dash; and Bradley, Chamberlain, Smith and Wheeler, winners of second prizes. Two members of the last year's tug of war team are no longer in college, although the fact...
...mind that Yale has a very strong team and that there are besides, other colleges which confidently expect to win the Mott Haven Cup for themselves. Our own team is weakened, or we must suppose it so until the new candidates prove themselves worthy successors of the old prize winners. The Mott Haven team has never yet followed the example of Harvard's other championship teams and gone to pieces at critical moments. We can never be too careful, however of this unfortunate tendency; and we urge as a preventative in this instance, all candidates to get themselves...
...rather slim, only those who were interested in the division of the spoils being present. This shoot concluded the series of matches that has been running for the past three weeks. No new series will be opened till after the semi-annual examinations. Following is the list of prize-winners in the different matches. Ties may be shot off at the practice shoots...
...Yale a prize of $30 has been offered to the senior who hands in the best essay in German on Victor von Scheffel, his life and works...
...League reserves the right to publish, at its own expense, any of the Essays for which prizes are awarded, and will print the essay receiving the first prize among its annual publications...