Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening the Andover club held its last meeting of the year at 30 Read's block. The attendance was large. After the regular business was over, a proposition was offered and accepted to give annually a prize of twenty-five dollars to the Andover student who passed the best examination in English. The examination is to be similar to the Harvard entrance papers and to be approved by the club. The election of officers then took place with the following result: President, J. B. Lund; secretary and treasurer, J. L. Dodge, '91; executive committee, C. F. Sempers...
George W. Childs of Philadelphia has offered fifty dollars as a prize for the best entrance examination to Princeton...
...half-mile in 2 minutes, 5 1-5 seconds, then the 120 yards hurdle race (hurdles 3 feet) in 16 2-5 seconds, next the high jump, 5 feet, 8 1-2 inches; and lastly the quarter-mile run in 54 1-5 seconds. He also won the second prize in putting the shot. The credit of this performance can best be estimated by recalling the fact that there is at present no athlete at any of the colleges who can equal it. Fearing enters Harvard next year, and should be a valuable addition to the Mott Haven team...
...pole vault will be contested by H. F. Welsh '90 of Columbia. As Shearman of Yale has a record of 10 feet 5 inches he has an excellent chance to capture the prize at this year's games. Columbia has entered E. B. Hinman, '90 in putting the shot and throwing the hammer...
Match race-One quarter mile for a special prize, presented by the Staten Island Athletic Club, W. C. Dohm, Princeton, won in 51 seconds; W. C. Downes, Harvard second...