Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...single scull race has at length taken place. With its occurrence we would take occasion to thank in the name of the college the gentlemen who by offering the prize in the race, have done so much to encourage this branch of aquatics at Harvard...
...JAMES.H. A. A. The executive committee will be photographed at 3 p.m. to-day at Pach's. The first and second prize winners of the Mott Haven team will be photographed...
...feeling over the result of every game that accounts for the desperation of Yale's play, and the dogged pluck she exhibits in athletics; but gentlemanly enthusiasm is almost as effective, and far more graceful for college men, than the bear-garden behavior in vogue at cocking mains and prize fights. It is one of the most creditable things in '89's record that she bore all this abuse patiently, without attempting to retaliate in the slightest degree. She may feel sure that the college considers her entitled to a most ample and public apology from the members...
...single scull race for the prize offered by Messrs. Thayer and Carrol of '85, will be rowed on Saturday...
...several newspapers, notably one at Yale, have published incorrect reports of the affair, we have obtained the exact facts, which are as follows: On account of the protest against Bonine, which if he had been placed, might have given second prize to third man, Mr. Baxter was deputed to place the third man. As the runners finished, first and second almost abreast, and third add fourth almost even, but 4 feet behind the leaders, he could not accurately judge between first and second without running the risk of making a mistake in his special duty of placing third...