Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Francis Davis Millet, born in 1846, served in the Civil War as a drummer boy, enlisting in 1861 at the age of 15. He entered College in 1865, and at the end of his course spend several years studying at Antwerp. He was for some time a newspaper correspondent for the Boston Advertise, and during the Russo-Turkish War and the Spanish War reported for the London Daily News and the New York Herald. In the field of art he ranked among the most prominent of American mural decorators and medal designers...
...Susan Anthony Potter Prize of $75 for the best essay on a subject dealing with the Spanish literature of the Golden Age, goes to Elliot Doniger '20 of New York City. The Francis Boott Prize of $100 awarded to the writer of the best composition in concerted vocal music goes to R. N. Dett Sp of Hampton, Va., while the George Arthur Knight Prize for the best composition in instrumental music goes to Randall Thompson '20 of Lawrenceville, N. Y. The Jeramy Bleknap Prize of $50 for the best French composition written by a first-year student in Harvard College...
First, "in my opinion, no American school or college intended for youth of between 18 and 22 years of age should accept such ill-prepared material as West Point accepts." If there is any school or college harder to get into, or more difficult to stay in once having arrived, than West Point, I have yet to learn of it. The entrance examinations are notorious for their severity and comprehensiveness, especially in mathematics and allied subjects. The number of failures among the candidates each year is ample proof of this fact. Furthermore, certificates admitting without examination are not accepted from...
...result of the Walker Blaine Beale memorial contest for a Republican Platform suitable for use in the approaching campaign. The prize was offered by Truxton Beale for the purpose of stimulating political study among young people, and was to be won by a Republican not over 25 years of age...
...severely some of his Shakespearean performances, there can be nothing but praise for his "Richelieu." We can only hope that he will return to Boston in the fall, and that on his next engagement he will give us more than two nights when we may forget so completely the age in which we live...