Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winner of the intercollegiate contest will receive a prize of $500 and a gold medal. The other colleges entered are Yale, Princeton, Annapolis, West Point, Columbia, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell
...twenty-five years have, however, threatened to destroy the few remaining vestiges of this life. The rising tide of commercial prosperity in which all classes shared and the recent influx of speculating northerners suggested the possibility of this region becoming a veritable slough of Babbittry, rivaling even the Middle West in wide-spread vulgarity. Such a condition seemed imminent in the absence of an effective counteracting influence...
...program for Vacation Night this evening beginning at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union. The inauguration of Vacation Night is intended to supplant the Union's series of "sport nights", by showing for the benefits of members who may be thinking of going out West this summer some glimpses of a few of the most interesting places...
...prize of $500 and a gold medal will be awarded to the student who writes the best general examination, and $250 and a gold medal for the winner of preliminary examinations in each college. The universities to which these prizes are offered are Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell Princeton, West Point, Annapolis, the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, and the University of Pennsylvania...
Dean Hawkes, of Columbia, Colonel Holt, of West Point, and Professor A. N. Holcombe of Harvard have been chosen as the national judges. Professor Holcombe will announce the arrangements for the examination here toward the end of this week...