Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Faculty meeting held last Tuesday, the Toppan prize of $150 was awarded to Arthur Lyons Cross '95, now instructor in the University of Michigan, for an "Essay on the Angelican Episcopate and the American Colonies." The judges were Professor Barrett Wendell, Rt. Rev. Bishop William Lawrence, D.D., and Mr. Andrew McFarland Davis...
...Faculty has recently adopted a plan for giving the prize and scholarship winners more adequate recognition than they have had in the past...
...days before the Christmas recess a meeting will be held in the Fogg Lecture Room, under the management of the Committee on the Publication of Academic Distinctions in Harvard College. At this meeting there will be speeches by prominent men, an announcement of all prizes won during the last year, and a presentation of the Deturs. A pamphlet will be distributed which will give a list of the winners of the Bowdoin prizes from the beginning, all of last year's prize winners in Harvard College, the scholarship winners of the first group for the last four years...
...intercollegiate cross country run on Saturday was won by Cornell's team with Yale second, Pennsylvania third, Columbia fourth and Princeton fifth. Cregan of Princeton, who won the individual prize, covered the course in 34 minutes and 5 and 2-5 seconds, which beats the record formerly held by Orton of Pennsylvania. A. Grant, captain of the Pennsylvania team, was a close second. Harvard was invited to take part in this contest, but declined owing to the short time which was allowed for training the long distance runners...
...senior class has elected the following officers: President, Owsley Brown, III.; vice-president, Herbart Wheeler, Pa.; secretary, J. Lionberger Davis, Me.; master of ceremonies, Wm. H. Edwards, N. Y.; presentation orator, Chas. H. Stewart, Ind.; historian, Chas. Yeoman, N. J.; '76 prize debater, John B. Keley, D. C.; ivy orator, J. A. Jones, N. J.; class poet, B. G. Huntingdon, Ohio; class orator, D. L. Chambers, D. C.; class prophet, Elroy Curtis, D. C.; Washington's Birthday orator, Edward S. Prieth...