The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50
Prizes
Prizes.
In Oratory—Founded by lion. James L. Stephens, a retired merchant of Columbia, and annually awarded for the best oration of Senior Class.
A book in defense of the Christian Religion and a Gold Medal, for the purchase of which the annual interest on $500 is available.
In Declamation—The Literary Societies, to best speakers in declamation contest.
In Physics.—$10 in money, by Charles Dachsel, engineer, Jefferson City, Mo., for best Thesis on Steam Engine.
Subject for "English Medal," 1883, "Goldsmith as a Humorist."
The heads of the several departments dispense prizes and distinctions in their discretion.