Word: prize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well-to-do circumstances has been slighted, and he it is that needs the spur of competition,- if anything, more than the poorer man, whose scant means are a protection against the distractions to which others are liable. Now comes the Ricardo Fellowship to supplement the work which the prize funds have hitherto done alone, and it is to be hoped that the experiment will tend to make our best scholarship more truly democratic...
...length. It lay out Brattle and Mt. Auburn streets, around Fresh Pond and back by way of Concord avenue. The break was made at the corner of Concord and Huron avenues. As three of the hounds finished within the eight-minute limit, the third one will receive a prize. The first four hounds returned in the following order: H. B. Clark 1901, H. Smith 1900, E. W. Mills 1901, L. Jackson...
Charles Grilk '98, of Davenport, Iowa, prepared at Andover. While there he spoke in the Means and Draper prize contests, and won first prize at the Philo exhibition debate. During his Freshman year at Harvard he was elected an editor of the CRIMSON, was first president of the Freshman Debating Club, and was a speaker in the first Harvard-Yale Freshman debate. In his Sophomore year he was the alternate on the Harvard-Yale 'Varsity debate. In his Junior year he took a Boylston first prize for public speaking, and was one of the principal speakers in the Harvard Princeton...
Philip Greenleaf Carleton '99, of Lawrence, Mass., alternate, prepared at Andover, where he was one of the speakers in the annual joint debate in 1895 between the Forum and the Philomathean Debating Club. He was also in the Means and Draper prize contests. During his first year at Harvard he was president of the Freshman Debating Club, and was one of its speakers in the Harvard-Yale Freshman debate. In his Sophomore year he was on the Forum team which debated against the Columbia Union. He is now secretary of the CRIMSON...
Herbert W. Fisher '98, of New Haven, prepared for Yale at the Hillhouse High School in that city, and was a member of the team defeated by Princeton last year. Fisher has won the Thacher prize for two consecutive years, and is among the first scholars of his class...