Word: prize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Baker said that the Elizabethan period was distinctly a dramatic epoch. At school boys were obliged to study Latin plays, and sometimes used to act in them. At the university great interest was taken in dramatic art; and when the Queen visited Oxford or Cambridge, she bestowed a prize on the one who wrote the best Latin play. This sort of training naturally produced a coterie of skilful playwrights...
...oratorical contest open to juniors and sophomores, the first prize of $30 was won by F. B. Eaton '96 and the second prize of $20 by F. E. Shaw...
...debate open to seniors on the subject, "Is the Income Tax a desirable means of raising revenue?" W. A. Foster of the negative won the first prize of $30 and G. W. Day of the negative won the second prize...
Professor Norton's prize for the most artistic work was finally awarded to C. P. M. Rumford '97, not for any particular picture, but for the general excellence shown in several of his pictures...
Professor Norton advised the club to hold a meeting and award the prize to the one among these ten which its members thought most deserving...