Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each year 32 prizes, amounting to a sum total-of $3865, are offered to undergraduates in the University. In addition to those financial awards, book prizes called Deturs, are presented to all men who attain for the first time a position in the first scholarship group. Two medals are also offered for public speaking. The medal of the Comite France-Amerique is presented to the successful contestant in an annual declamation conducted in French, while the Pasteur med al goes to the best speaker at an annual debate conducted in English...
...longshoremen have voluntarily foregone their beer. To the unfortunate students of literature at Cambridge we extend our sympathy; to them undoubtedly has fallen the unpleasant lot of having Sir Arthur's doctrines forced down their throats. They can reject them and become threadbare hack-writers; or swallow them and attain the airy pinnacles reached by our own Mr. Tumulty...
...Mikkola. Among the most promising candidates in the javelin throw are H. C. Janin '22, R. M. C. Grunidge '24, and Malcolm Morse '24. These men have been steadily increasing the distance of their throws and are now throwing ten or twelve feet more than they were able to attain at the Winter Carnival. With the coming of warmer weather they should do considerably better...
...moment, eternal vigilance is necessary to protect it. The Rules Committee stands ready to do its part, and the colleges I am sure are more than ready and anxious to do theirs, but it is only the close cooperation between the two that will with absolute certainty attain the objective we are still striving for--the preservation and integrity of this greatest of academic sports...
...view of this reaction it is particularly interesting to see that one college, Harvard, has sent to the Princeton conference the presidents of the CRIMSON, the University daily newspaper, and of "The Advocate," the leading monthly magazine. As a rule the men who attain these positions are leaders in their class and are representative of the best elements in the college. But perhaps as interesting as this is the fact that this delegation goes with a program that is at the same time sane and optimistic...