Word: torrey
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regular athletic committee will be made up this year of Stagg of Yale, D. C. Torrey of Harvard and H. C. Cowan of Princeton. New athletic grounds are being laid out and there will be a new base-ball diamond and ten new tennis courts. Cricket and lacrossed teams will probably be formed in addition to the ball nines. Last year Princeton had the largest delegation and won the base-ball championship...
...DAVID C. TORREY, Sec'y.H. B, C.- There will be a run to Malden this afternoon if pleasant. Start from University...
...annual meeting of the Harvard Union the following officers were elected:-President, C. M. Thayer, '88. vice-president, E. E. Shoemaker, '89; secretary and treasurer, D. C. Torrey, '90. The various reports showed the Union to be in good financial condition, and accomplishing good work. It was voted to have a committee appointed the advisability of holding a joint debate with Yale next winter...
...competitors showed careful training and appreciation of the passages selected by them, The prizes were awarded as follows: First prizes, G. S. Howe, W. F. Richard; second prizes, E. R. Thayer, Wm. Barnes, R. B. Mahany. In making the announcement of the decision of the judges, Professor Torrey said that a first prize had been awarded unanimously to G. S. Howe. The next four competitors were very evenly gouped, but according to the conditions of the foundation of the Boylston prize, another first prize was awarded to W. F. Richards, and second prizes to the other three successful declaimers...
...comment by the daily press of the country upon the award of the Bowdoin prize. This comment was aroused by an article which has been going the rounds and which was full of misrepresentations. The facts in the case are clearly stated in a letter from Professor H. W. Torrey, one of the judges, to the Boston Post. Of the three judges appointed to examine the essays, Professor Torrey alone had read the Aunex essay, when it was recalled by the dean as ineligible for the prize, because of the conditions of candidature, limiting the competition to members...