Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1890-1891 [PAGE 77]

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PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS.

THE CONKLIN ORATORICAL PRIZES.

Mr. R. R. Conklin, an alumnus of the University, has offered two prizes, of $60 and $40, respectively, for original orations from Juniors, to be pronounced at such time as the Faculty may appoint during the week of commencement. Competition is open to such as are full members of the junior class. From the orations presented on or before the first day of May preceding, a number, not to exceed ten, to be selected by the Faculty, will be presented on the platform, and to the first and second best, as may be determined by judges, the prizes will be awarded.

THE HAZLETON PRIZE MEDAL.

Capt. W. C. Hazleton has provided a medal, of beautiful and artistic design, which is to be awarded at a competitive drill to be held near the close of the year, to the best drilled student. Each competitor must have been in attendance at the University for at least sixteen weeks of the current college year; must not have had more than four unexcused absences from drill; must_present himself for competition in full uniform. The award will be made on the following points: 1. Erectness of carriage, military appearance and neatness. 2. Execution of the school of the soldier without arms. 3. Manual of arms with and without numbers. The successful competitor will receive a certificate setting forth the facts, and may wear the medal until the 15th of May following, when it will be returned for the next competition.

THE HARRIET ABBOT-BIRCHMORE PRIZE.

This prize is offered to stimulate accurate study of the changes produced in articles of human food. The subject for which a prize is offered in 1892 is "The identification of any hitherto undetermined poison developed in human food, and the isolation of the cause." The prize offered, a set of re-agents for the micro-technique. The contestants, the pupils in the Botanical Laboratory of the University of Illinois.