Word: prize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale-Princeton debate occurs here on Friday night of this week. This promises to be an interesting contest, for the speakers on both sides have all had experience in debating, and Princeton's especially, are all three noted prize winners in Whig and Clio Halls, besides being prominent in other spheres of activity. However, they are all undergraduates and because of this fact it is though that Yale's representatives one of whom is a Law School man and another a theologian, will be superior. However, Princeton's record in debating in the past has been her pride and every...
...announcement of subjects for the Bowdoin prize dissertations will be eagerly welcomed by a considerable number of men whose competitive instincts seek an intellectual field for their exercise. Though the ultimate aim of such prizes must be to stimulate an active interest in the various lines of study, yet the distinction of winning a prize is in itself a perfectly commendable incentive to intellectual effort. It would be well if we had more prize competitions than we do. If that were the case, and the standards were kept high, the problem of securing more general recognition to scholarly attainment, which...
...prizes offered annually by George E. Miner, M. D., New York City, to the students in Dartmouth Medical College showing the greatest proficiency in the study of the nervous system, have been awarded. David Newton Blakeley of Winchendon, Mass., took the first prize; Frank George Manson, A. M., of Solon, Me., the second, and Berthold Sternbach Pollak of Philadelphia, the third. The three prize winners are well-known and successful students. Blakeley was valedictorian in this year's graduating class...
...greater attempt than ever has been made by the athletic management to limit the attendance to college men, graduate and undergraduate, and their friends. The number of persons who have attended the important games in Cambridge, in much the same way that they would be attracted to a prize fight, has been reduced to a minimum. Thirdly, all of our games have been on college grounds...
...series of paper chases are being run at Yale for a prize which is to be awared the man who makes the best showing in the series. The runs average about ten miles each and are covered in about an hour and a half...