Word: prize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...successful meeting of the Interscholastic Association was held on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon. The audience was large, the track fast, and several records were broken. Worcester Academy won by a good margin, with English High and Andover second and third. Worcester High, the winner of the prize cup last year made a poor showing, scoring but four points. Mills, of the Berkeley School, won the mile run easily in 4m. 33 4-5s., breaking the record. Hanson, of the English High, ran the half mile in 2m. 1 1-5s., and Boardman of Noble's School rode...
...competition for the Sales prize of $45 will take place on Wednesday morning, June 10, at a quarter past nine o'clock in Lower Mass. The prize is given annually, either in money or a gold medal of equivalent value, to the best scholar in Spanish, who shall have commenced the study of that language at Harvard College, and whose scholarship shall be determined by his proficiency in Spanish composition: The successful candidate to be selected by the President, the Professor of the French and Spanish languages, and the Instructor of Spanish for the time being...
...competition for this prize is limited to undergraduates of Harvard College and the Lawrence Scientific School...
Pole vault-Won by F. W. Allis, Y., 11 ft.; 3 in.; second, W. A. Stewart, Pa., 11 ft.; third, a tie between O. B. Smith, C., and C. T. Van Winkle, Y., 10 ft. 9 in. Smith won the toss for the prize, but the points were divided...
Secondly, the service these men rendered to their country was absolutely disinterested. No professional interest in war influenced them. No pay, or prize money, or prospect of pension had the least attraction for them. They offered their services and lives to the country, just for love, and out of the determination that, if they could help it, the cause of freedom should take no harm. No mercenary motives can be attributed to any of them. This disinterestedness is essential to their heroic quality. The world has long since determined the limits of its occasional respect for mercenary soldiers. It admires...