Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Prize Song from "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg," Wagner...
...Prize Song from "The Mastersingers of Nuremburg," Wagner...
...Annual Spring Tennis Tournament will be held on Jarvis Field, commencing Saturday, May 21. Singles and, provided enough men enter, doubles will be played. First and runner-up prizes will be given in each event; and in singles a consolation prize, open to all men beaten in their first match actually played. All matches will be the best two out of three advantage sets, except the finals, which will be the best three out of five, advantage sets. Blue books have been placed in Sanborn's and in Leavitt's where all entries should be made. The entrance...
Although there have been no lack of entries in recent years for the Boylston Prize elocution competitions, the small attendance of college men at the final contests, seems to show that anything like general interest in them has subsided...
...unfortunate that this is the case, since for many years after the foundation of the prize fund in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston, these competitions were among the more important events in each college year. The ushers were always appointed from the Junior, by the First Marshal of the Senior Class, and served also as Junior ushers on Class Day. In fact there was not only general interest shown, but every effort was made to keep that interest alive; and, although it is not now realized by the undergraduates, many of the older inhabitants of Cambridge and Boston still watch...