Word: award
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coxe Fellowship has just been established at Yale and this year marks its first award. It brings a yearly remuneration...
...also announced that the scholarship the club intended to award this year to an undergraduate for a year's study in Italy, will not be given. None of the essays handed in by competitors for the scholarship, one of the bases on which the selection is made, were considered good enough by the judges to win a year of study abroad. The money will be used for next year's scholarship...
...Fridtjof Nansen, famed Norwegian polar explorer, winner of the Nobel Peace Award in 1922, and repeatedly Norwegian Delegate to the League of Nations, landed from the Aquitania last week, to lecture before the National Geographical Society and then return within a fortnight to Norway. Growled he: "The most valuable vehicle for scientific polar exploration is still the dog sled. Airplanes and dirigibles fly too swiftly...
Paradoxically the drafter of Britain's ultimatum and threat to intervene was Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain who recently received a Nobel Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). In the House of Commons, last week, Sir Austen bared his imperfect teeth in a wolfish smile when Opposition back benchers shouted that he was "Bullying Egypt!" With the crisis safely passed, however, he beamingly announced that Empire sea hounds Warspite and Valiant had been ordered back to their kennel at Malta...
...have been asked to write the chapters on North America and the West Indies, and have secured the cooperation of Dr. C. F. Brooks '12 of Clark University in carrying out this heavy task. We two cannot possibly gather all necessary data, and it is here that the Milton Award will be of great assistance. Through it we have already secured two assistants, one to go to Mexico City, the other to Toronto, to gather information and copy data in those cities. The Milton Fund will also cover expenses for the drawing of new charts and diagrams. This award...