Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prizes are added to the list, namely, the Lucius F. Robinson prize for Latin, founded in 1887, and the Henry James Ten Eyck prizes, founded in 1888. A number of new instructors and proctors are announced and the amount of freshman prestribed Greek is increased. The Christmas recess is lengthened five days...
Class of '76 Prize Debater-H. G. Drummond, New Jersey...
...Harvard Law School Association offers a prize of $100 for the best essay on any of the following subjects: (1) The principle underlying the maxim volentianon fit injursa and the application of the maxim in cases where a servant sues a master to recover damages resulting from the master's failure to comply with the statutory requirements designed to secure the safety of the servant. (2) The extent to which in the United States private rights of property may be effected without compensation by the exercise of the police power. (3) The obligation of railroad companies impliedly assumed...
Competition for the above prize is open to members of the third-year class only. Essays must be sent to the secretary of the Association, Mr. Louis D. Brandeis, on or before June 1, 1889. The prize will be awarded at the meeting of the Association held in Cambridge in June, 1889. Austin G. Fox, Samuel B. Clarke and Victor Morawetz, as committee, selected the subjects and will award the prize...
...winter months, the gymnasium should be used by the candidates for the Mott Haven team to the best advantage. The special contests to which we refer were held Thursday evenings last year, and contributed in no small degree to the success of the Mott Haven team last spring. Prizes should be offered to the men showing the most progress in each of the different events during the successive trials. In this way more candidates will be brought out than if a prize were offered to the man making the best record, for against one or two old members...