Word: award
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After considering the large number of applications for the Rhodes Scholarship, the Committee has selected the final 15 students who are still eligible for the award. To one of these men the scholarship will be awarded today, it was announced by Professor W. C. Greene '11. Included in the group of those who still have an opportunity to receive the scholarship are five Harvard men. Universities and colleges from all over the state, including Amherse, Williams, Harvard, and others, had many competitors for the award...
...Award Basis Changed...
...basis of the award was changed: no school preparing less than seven boys for college was allowed to enter the competition, and no longer was the competing school required to send any of its boys to Harvard. Moreover, the standing of the several schools in the records made by all the graduates in the contest was to be determined not by a given year, but by the achievement of the best seven from each school. The rating of the teams is based upon the highest average obtained in four College Entrance Examinations on subjects chosen by each of the team...
...Bragdon '28, vice-president of the Union will preside. He will award the cups to winners of the class A and B tennis, pool, and billiard tournaments...
...into what justification the play presents for the judges' decision. To the audience which saw the opening night in Boston at the Arlington Theater of Paul Green's "In Abraham's Bosom," however, there was little doubt but that this play fully merited some such honor as the Pulitzer award it received last winter...