Word: silver
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Lawrence Dennis Occ. of Washington, D. C., was announced winner of the Coolidge Debating Prize of $100, being judged the best speaker of those competing. The six speakers will be awarded gold medals and the alternates silver medals, at a banquet to be held later this season, as provided by the terms of the Coolidge bequest. The judges were Frderick G. White and Robert Winternitz, both of the English department of the University, and Julian H. Spitz...
...offered with the idea of stimulating in young college men the attainment of those qualities--quick, clear thinking and ease of expression--toward which debating is aimed. In addition to the prize a gold medal "The Coolidge Debating Medal" will be awarded to all speakers, and a silver medal to alternates in the Triangular debate...
...Advocate is offering, through G. Faunce Whitcomb '16 a prize of a silver medal in memory of Emily C. Whitcomb, for the best poem which shall have appeared in the Advocate during the current academic year, written by an undergraduate not a member of the Board. The only stipulations are that the poem shall be in neither blank verse nor free verse. Every number of the Advocate will be judged, including numbers already issued. The award will be made on June 1. The judges will consist of Mr. Whitcomb and the Advocate Board...
...Lioyd McKim Garrison Prize, consisting of $125 and a silver medal for "the best poem on a subject annually to be chosen and announced by a Committee of the Department of English" will this year be given for a poem on "Fiume." Poems are not necessarily restricted to 50 lines, as formerly. All those submitted should bear an assumed name and should be accompanied by a scaled letter containing the real name of the writer and bearing on the outside the assumed name. This competition is open only to undergraduates of the University. Manuscripts must be handed in at University...
...high jump (3-inch limit), 300-yard run, one-mile walk, three-mile run, and putting the 16-pound shot (5 feet limit). The New York Athletic Club offers the following prizes to the winners in the several events: First place, an 18-karat gold medal; second place a silver medal; and third place, a bronze medal...