Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecture room of the Fogg Museum. The opening speeches will be twelve minutes and the rebuttal five minutes in length, and the sides have been assigned as follows: Negative--Morse, Frank and Bruce; affirmative--Mayer, Kirtland and Yeomans. Three men and an alternate will be selected and the Coolidge Prize of 8100 will be given to the man who has made the best speeches in the three trials. Princeton will submit her choice of side next Saturday. The question is: "Resolved, That the English claims in the present controversy with the South African republic are justifiable...
...challenge has been forwarded from Harvard, Princeton and Columbia to Oxford and Cambridge for another cable chess match. The trophy won by the English universities last April will again be the prize. The wish of the Americans is to have six players on each side who are bona fide students of the universities. They will not necessarily be restricted to the colleges named, but must not be more than five years from the year of their matriculation. The next contest will probably be in April...
...Coolidge debating prize of $100 will be awarded as heretofore to the man considered by the judges to have made the best showing in all three trials. Professor Baker, Professor Ames of the Law School and Senator Dallinger have consented to be the judges, and if possible they will act at all three of the trials...
...provided that theses forming part of the regular work of a course may be presented in competition, with the consent of the instructor, or, subject to such consent, may be rewritten for the competition. Hence the student must no longer go out of his way to compete for Bowdoin prizes, but may use the results of work already done. In making the award, the literary quality of the essays as well as their substance is to be taken into account. The essays must not exceed ten thousand words in length, and must be handed in not later than April...
...graduates, a single prize of three hundred dollars is offered for this year for an essay on a subject within the range of ancient and modern language, literature and fine arts; the precise subject here also being left to the choice of the writer. In subsequent years prizes for graduates will be offered within other departments of knowledge...