No. 12

The subjects for the Prize Competition were as follows:- Dean Ireland’s (i) Greek Prose, More’s Utopia Bk ii ch 5. ‘The people’ – ‘chiefly themselves’. (ii) Greek Verse, Matthew Arnold’s ‘Tristan & Isolde’: ‘And is she happy’ – ‘today’s exact repeated effigy.’ (iii) Latin Prose, Bacon’s essays om ‘Revenge’ – Gumbleton’s English Verse, ‘Gordon’.

No. 573

The Gumbleton English Verse Prize & the Latin Prose Prize were awarded to C.C.J. Webb Q.S. The subject of the former was “The Confessor’s Abbey of Thorney”. The Greek Prose Prize fell to R. Vavasseur Q.S. & the Greek Iambic Prize to A. Jackson T.B. No one attempted the Phillimore Essay, the topic of which…

No. 538

The Phillimore Essay was won by C. Webb. Subject “the Comparative strength & weakness of Athens & Sparta” The Prize for Latin Prose was awarded to H.W. Waterfield Q.S. Accesserunt; O. Scoones, QS., W. G. Hewitt, & F. T. Higgins. No first prize was given for Greek Iambics, second fell to O. Scoones. The first…

No. 280

The subject for the Phillimore Essay is a comparison between the Lyric poets of Greece and Italy. The prize was awarded to OEquates G.A. Hicks TB Macmillan QS Proxime Accessit Botton QS   The subject for Greek Iambics was selected from Julius Caesar I.3. No first prize was given, the second was awarded to P.J.…