Word: prize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Musical compositions submitted for the Francis Boott Prize this year must be in the hands of the chairman of the prize committee, Arthur Foote '74, at 158 Ridge Avenue, Newton Center, on or before April...
...Francis Boott Prize is made possible through a fund left by Francis Boott, class of 1831. Through it $100, is awarded annually to the writer of the best composition in concerted vocal music, the competition being open to undergraduates or to members of any graduate school...
...most interesting works is a roll of pictures 13 feet long showing various scenes in the gathering of people to a prize fight. The roll is probably unique and is one of Cruikshank's early works. On display in the same case is a book complete with illustrations of the fight between Crib and Molineux and titled "The Battle" This was done about...
...prize fighters grow old, they become decrepit; young bruisers whom they could once have walloped, beat their battered noses and knock their false teeth out of mouth. Yet, rebels against time, because they love the sound of invisible watchers in the dark or because they know that they will be unable to earn a living in some other profession, they continue to fight, in little arenas and smelly, half filled armories...
...Robert Andrews Millikan, Nobel Prize Winner, chided the New York Chamber of Commerce because businessmen in general are slow in applying scientific research in their affairs...