Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Olympian Rink of Boston offers prizes of many hundreds of dollars to be awarded in the near future to the best drum corps out of the many it expects to contest. It is suggested that the H. D. C. be resusitcated and compete for the prize. As the award is to be made not only for musical skill, but also for skill in evolution, and as the old H. D. C. performed the most marvellous evolutions ever seen in the great parade, there will be little doubt that the prize and hundreds of shining ducats will come out to Harvard...
...HENRY, 41 Thayer.The Chess Club proposes to hold a tournament for the chess championship, open to all members of the university. A prize of the value of $10.00 will be given to the winner, and a second prize will be awarded if there is a sufficient number of entries. The games will be played at such times and places as the contestants agree upon among themselves, with the exception that the final games are to be played at a meeting of the Chess Club. Other rules governing the tournament will be published later. Entries can be sent before Saturday, November...
...pleased to see, by the proof sheets of the forthcoming catalogue, that the Dante Society offers an annual prize, for three years, of one hundred dollars for the best essay on a subject drawn from the life and works of Dante. Competition is open to any student of the university or to any graduate of not more than three years standing. The first prize is offered for the year 1886-87, and the essay must be deposited with the Dean on or before the first day of May of the latter year. The judges of the essays will...
COMMITTEE.SHOOTING CLUB. Matches will be opened at the Watertown grounds tomorrow (Thursday) as follows: Match A, 10 clay pigeons, open to all; match B, 10 blackbirds, open to all; match C, 16 clay pigeons, open only to those who have not won prizes. 18 yards rise and five angles in each match. Prizes will be awarded to those having the best aggregates in two out of three matches. The first prizes will be cups, second medals. If there are more than seven entries in an event, a third prize will be given...
...Dante Society has offered an annual prize of one hundred dollars to be awarded for the writer of the best essay on a subject on the life or works of Dante. The limitations and conditions of the offer will be found in the college catalogue...