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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...syllabus represents the epitome of "knowledge served on a silver platter." By its use, the average undergraduate can temporarily absorb and entire term's work in three hours and, entrenched in this manner, successfully thwart the parries of the most despotic "prof." With the examination past history hew can then seek new learning in another field, entirely unhampered by a brain loaded with other ideas. And thus the four years pass most enjoyably. --Daily Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Knowledge on a Silver platter." | 2/17/1919 | See Source »

...candidates for the managership and assistant managership of the team should report to M. Zobel '19 at 1750 Cambridge street at 7 this evening. The winner makes the trip to New Haven with the team and both manager and assistant manager will be given a silver trophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hold 1922 Debating Trials for Contest with Yale and Princeton | 2/13/1919 | See Source »

...subject of the poem for this year's Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize, according to the announcement made yesterday by Professor George P. Baker '87. This prize was founded by the Class of 1888 in memory of their classmate Lloyd McKim Garrison. It consists of $100 and a silver medal, for "the best poem on a subject or subjects annually to be chosen and announced by a Committee of the Department of English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Marne Battle Subject of 1919 Garrison Prize Poem | 2/8/1919 | See Source »

Both boxing and wrestling matches are divided into the following classes: 115, 125, 135, 145, 158, 175 lbs., and heavy-weight. The winners of the championships will receive silver medals and the runners-up bronze medals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL GIVE ANNUAL TOURNEYS | 2/5/1919 | See Source »

...Freshman Debating Society will be organized this evening, when all members of the Class of 1922 who are interested in debating meet in Gore Hall Common Room at 8 o'clock. As in past years, there will be interdormitory debates for silver trophies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1922 Debaters Will Meet at 8 | 1/22/1919 | See Source »

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