Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...call the attention of the freshmen to the society relations of the university. The prurience which some men exhibit in seeking social honors is simply ludicious, while others are just as backward and slow to make acquaintances. Some of us seem to hold up before us as the highest prize of college life admission to some one society. And we are too often led to look upon society relations purely from the club side. There are other social relations beyond those of the societies which are well worth the student's time. Close societies will always foster cliques, and cliques...
...much interest been taken in English composition and literature as at the present moment. The competition of the Advocate and the Monthly, necessarily very active, has kept all the best writers in college on the qui vive for the last four months. In addition to this, the Advocate's prizes have just brought forth a great deal of very powerful undergraduate work by authors as yet unconnected with any paper. For a large part of this enthusiasm in the study of our tongue the English department is distinctly responsible, and all praise must be given to them for their share...
...Hamilton, '87. has written an essay on the "Reasons for the Coming of the Pilgrims" for the Old South prize. It will soon be published in book form...
...Yale News editorially makes an appeal for candidates for the Mott Haven team, saying that, as "Harvard won the cup through five second prizes" last year, the inferior men ought to be encouraged to try as well as the first prize men. Passing over the circumstance that next year there will probably be no first prizes lost through mismanagement, as was the case with us last year, the call of the News for the services of every capable man whether a fine athlete or not, should find an echo in our columns, in behalf of our team...
...announcement of the conditions of the Sargent prize for the best translation of one of the epodes of Horace, is well calculated to stimulate an interesting competition. While the date which has been fixed is somewhat unfortunate, sufficient time will be allowed for any earnest writer to complete the work. This prize will serve as a valuable supplement to the Bowdoin prizes and offer a premium for excellence in poetical composition. Some complaint has recently been expressed that rhythmical construction is totally neglected in all our English composition courses, and that college poetry is wholly an affair of college periodicals...