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...large number of excellent pieces of work are submitted in competition for it. With an intercollegiate contest, the best of these contributions might be submitted to a board of judges who would also receive the most commendable essays submitted in the contest at Yale. Then this body might select the winning work and give the prize to its author. The establishment of any such plan would surely increase to a large degree the interest and activity of the students of both institutions in literary and scholarly work, for the spirit of intercollegiate competition would be a powerful stimulant to intellectual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HARVARD-YALE PRIZE. | 2/14/1913 | See Source »

Competitors are at liberty to select the subjects of their essays; but subjects must be approved in advance by the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes. Essays already presented for other prizes, or for academic recognition elsewhere than in Harvard University, are not admissible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOWDOIN PRIZE CONDITIONS | 12/11/1912 | See Source »

...commenting upon the recent selections of "All-American" teams Parke H. Davis says in the Daily Princetonian: "The selection of an 'All-American' eleven today as a serious undertaking is impossible. It is impractical to assume that among 10,000 players there can possibly be eleven best men. It is not less impractical to assume that a single observer or even a jury of observers, can even approximately select and reject material that they have never seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Comment | 12/9/1912 | See Source »

...advisers for the second round in the Ames Competition at the Law School are announced as follows: Perkins for Parke vs. Beale; Starsinger for Cheate vs. George Gray Fiddler for Colley vs. English 6: Breugle for Langdell vs. Bruce Wyman. Clubs should select their judges for this round before Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notes of Interest to University | 12/3/1912 | See Source »

...hoped all Harvard graduates and undergraduates, both those whose homes are in London and those who are merely travelling in England during the summer, will be able to attend. A resolution was passed at the previous dinner, authorizing Mr. William Phillips '00, Secretary of the American Embassy, London, to select a graduate or undergraduate of Harvard University likely to be in London next year and advise him as to a proper date for a Harvard dinner, in London, in the summer of 1913. While such an undergraduate has not yet been definitely selected, it is hoped that all Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD DINNER IN LONDON | 10/8/1912 | See Source »

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