Word: prize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Youngman's work at college has been chiefly in the departments of history, economics and English. He has taken English 10 and English VI. In his junior year he joined the Forum, of which he is now president, and last year he won a Boylston Prize, and spoke well in the Union-Forum Debate...
Robert McN. McElroy '96 was born at Perryville, Ky. He prepared for college at the Louisville High School, entering the freshman class in October, 1892. He took first prize in sophomore debate in Whig Hall, and second prize the same year in the Whig oratorical contest. He was a member of the debating team which defeated Yale at New Haven last year on May 1, and was one of the two who were allowed second speeches at that time. He won the first prize in the senior oratorical contest this year in Whig and first prize for disputation...
...substitute speaker was Frank Rudolph Steward '96, of Fort Missoula, Mont. He is 23 years old. Steward graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, and while there won first prize in oratory...
...writer of this article seems to think that there are no high honors in the University open to the rich student. He appears to think that no prize that does not actually bear the name of scholarship is worth the scholar's winning. This is a mere confusion of terms. There are high honors in every department of the University that the rich scholar may win, and every one understands that the prizes are the reward for excellent scholarship, call them by what names you will...
...names of those who secure the prize will be engraved together with their records, on the silver band of each...