Word: prize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hayes will select the best speakers among the scholars of the public schools at Manchester, N. H., tomorrow night when the annual prize speaking is heard there...
...spent three years, graduating in 1879 with the degree of LL.B. He then came to Harvard and entered the Law School. While at Harvard he founded the Daily Echo, one of the first of the college dailies, and later, by his essay on "International Arbitration," secured the Bowdoin Prize. In addition to his law course at Harvard, he took outside courses in the academic department amounting to two full years work...
...Engineering News Publishing Co. has just made its third annual offer of the following prizes for the best graduating theses presented by students from any engineering course of any college in the United States or Canada: First prize, $75; second prize, $50; third prize, $25. For such other theses as seem to the judges to deserve such recognition, honorable mention, accompanied in each case by a two years' paid subscription to the Engineering News, will be given. This competition is of course only open to men in graduating classes...
...addition to the above prizes, the same company offers a prize of $100 for the best thesis submitted in 1894 by a post graduate student of any engineering school of the United States or Canada. This is provided, however, that should any thesis or theses submitted by graduating students appear to the judges to be of superior merit to the best post graduate thesis, then the prize of $100 shall be awarded to the graduate's thesis, and the post graduate thesis will be given a prize according to its relative rank...
...were under Mr. Lathrop's care at one time or another during the spring. The immediate object of the winter training is to fit men for the indoor games which are held in Boston. These games being handicap, one man has as good a chance of winning a prize as another...