Word: winner
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...poet, and his verses were considered to be very good. He had one of the twenty-nine parts on "Commencement Day," and spoke on John Knox in a "Conference on the Character of John Knox, William Pean and John Wesley." Josiah Quincy, his classmate, and the winner of the first prize at the Bowdoin contest, made this entry in his journal under date of July 16, 1821: "Attended a dissertation of Emerson's, in the morning, on the subject of Ethical Philosophy. I found it long and dry." The next day he went to the chapel, where Barnwell and Emerson...
...twenty-ninth inning Princeton again tallied, the datter hitting the ball clean into the third-base's stomach, and, the Yales not having the presence of mind to call lost ball, before they could get it out the man scored. This being the last inning, Princeton was declared winner. The following is the summary...
...wishes to give these affairs world wide notoriety; to have the insignificant details of each day's preliminary practice published in the newspapers of Christendom, and to have a nation watch and wait the result. In case of victory he wishes to immediately "Paint the town red," and whether winner or loser he assists and encourages the contestants to celebrate their release from the wholesome restraints of training by a round of riotous excess, which does more physical harm than a decade of training, or a hundred hard races...
...Trinity-the chief college of Cambridge-most of the scholarships are open by competitive examinations to "all comers" of good character under nineteen years of age, and the winner of one of them must be a youth of no low order of scholarship as a long series of papers in my possession prove. But two or three (as the funds afford) are awarded annually to pupils of Westminister School in the way stated above. There are also at Trinity College sixteen sizarships, worth L100 sterling a year, open to all on like conditions of age and of a severe three...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON :-During the past week the question has been raised in your columns several times, editorially and in correspondence-who is the best man to send to New Haven next year to represent Harvard in the mile walk? The winner in last Saturday's race and a gentleman who did not walk this fall have both had their supporters, but not a word has been said for the plucky freshman who made nearly or quite as good time in that race as the victorious senior. Shattuck, so far as is known, never walked a race in his life...