Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...final trial, held last night in the Fogg Lecture Room, R. C. Bruce '02, H. B. Kirtland '01, and W. Morse '00, with E. Mayer '00 as alternate, were chosen to represent Harvard in debate against Princeton. Kirtland was awarded the Coolidge prize of $100 as the one who had done best in the trials...
...held in the American Whig and the Cliosophic Literary Societies to decide upon the four men to represent each Hall in the Inter-Hall debate to be held Friday, Nov. 17. From these men a team of six will be chosen for the debate with Harvard. The Spencer Trask prize of fifty dollars will be given to the man doing the best work in these preliminary debates...
...Library has lately received an interesting gift from Mr. Thornton K. Lothrop of Boston, consisting of a collection of poems written by Oxford undergraduates in competition for the Newdigate Prize, offered yearly from...
Among the winners of the Newdigate prizes have been a number of famous men. In 1812, Henry Hart Miliman won the prize for a poem entitled the "Belvidere Apollo"; in 1832, Roundell Palmer, now Lord Selborne, won the prize for his "Staffa"; in 1837, Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of Westminster, for "The Gipsies"; in 1839, John Ruskin for his "Salsette and Elephanta"; in 1843, Matthew Arnold wrote the prize poem, "Cromwell"; in 1852, Edwin Arnold, "The Feast of Belshazzar." At a later date, in 1860, J. A. Symonds, author of the "Renaissance in Italy," won the prize...
...been assigned as follows: Affirmative--Mayer, Kirtland and Yeomans; negative--Morse, Frank and Bruce. From these six, three men and an alternate will be selected for the final team. Professor Baker, Mr. I. L. Winter and Mr. R. C. Ringwalt, who will act as judges, will award the Coolidge prize of $100 to the man who has made the best speeches in the three trials...