Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...epodes of Horace, is well calculated to stimulate an interesting competition. While the date which has been fixed is somewhat unfortunate, sufficient time will be allowed for any earnest writer to complete the work. This prize will serve as a valuable supplement to the Bowdoin prizes and offer a premium for excellence in poetical composition. Some complaint has recently been expressed that rhythmical construction is totally neglected in all our English composition courses, and that college poetry is wholly an affair of college periodicals. The Sargent prize will serve to elevate college poetry to official recognition, and offer an inducement...
...shall be their own judge of the time for meeting the committee of the faculty. We believe also that while the under-classes should be represented, the committee should be essentially of upper classmen, as in the proportion as power is associated with the senior and junior classes, a premium is put upon experience, and the more will they be able, and endeavor to control the college body and promote moderation...
...Yale game will be called to-morrow at 3 o'clock. Reserved seat tickets are selling at one dollar premium. If the day is fair, fully 5000 people will witness the game...
...former years, or those at present presented at other colleges leaves no loop-hole for excuse as to individual tastes and talents which might be better fostered by a special rather than by a regular collegiate course. While special study at a large university will always offer a high premium to lassitude and constitutional langour it can but in few instances be pursued at Harvard to greater advantage than the regular course. The curriculum which is now offered to the regular students is so extensive that a college course can be made to comprehend all that any special course could...
...Boston Record thinks that it is significant, as showing how Boston muscle is at a premium, that not only the champion prize fighter hails from their centre of culture, but that seventeen of the thirty-two members of the Harvard class crews claim Boston as their home...