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...members of our team and department unite in sending the Harvard team and English Department most cordial greetings. We heartily appreciate the privilege of sharing in the first intercollegiate competition under the generous provisions of the Putnam Memorial. We are glad to feel that our mutual aims and friendship are thus confirmed and strengthened. George H. Nettleton...
...representing the University will compete with Yale this afternoon in what is believed to be the first intercollegiate scholastic contest ever held. This is the first of a series of scholastic competitions made possible by a recent gift of $125,000 from Mrs. William Lowell Putnam...
Subsequently, the dwelling-place became the head-quarters for General Israel Putnam, the Commissary officer of the Revolutionary army. Putnam and his adjutants were quartered here until the battle of Bunker Hill, in which all of them participated. After the Boston affray, the American troops and General Putnam retired from Cambridge, leaving the Hicks house to remain open for civilian occupants the rest of its days...
...competition was established by Mrs. Putnam with the idea that "the competition which has inspired young men to undertake and undergo so much for the sake of athletic victories might accomplish the same results in academic fields...
...been suggested that too much of the team against team spirit would be detrimental to the purpose of Mrs. Putnam's donation, and undoubtedly such a danger does exist. Realizing that such difficulties might arise, Professor Tat-lock in yesterday's CRIMSON said that "this is the first year of the contest, and it is likely enough that methods may be altered another year." A change that would put the awards more definitely within the grasp of the hopeful many would perhaps serve better the cause of scholarship...