Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...competition for the Boylston Prize speaking will occur to-day in Sanders at 10 o'clock...
...preliminary competition for the Boylston Prize Speaking will occur this week. About thirty men will compete. We publish in another column the order of the competition. We will publish the list of the successful contestants on Saturday. We are desired to say that great care should be taken that each piece shall not exceed five minutes in time of delivery. Although this may seem a very short time to each speaker, it is probable that the time of the whole programme will seem far from short. The contest promises to be very spirited, as many good speakers have entered...
...prize will not be awarded to any dissertation which is not, in the judgment of the Committee, worthy of publication as a creditable contribution to the literature of the subject...
...annual prize of one hundred dollars, the gift of Charles Sumner, of the class of 1830, is offered for the best dissertation by a student of the University in any of its departments on a subject connected with the topic of Universal Peace and the methods by which War may be permanently superseded...
...title page of a dissertation offered for the prize, must be inscribed with an assumed name, and the dissertation must be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name and the University standing of the writer and superscribed with his assumed name...