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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newsboys prize was won by Charles Goldenberg of Mattapan, a graduate of the Boston Public Latin School. This award of $300 is given to a Freshman who has been a newsboy up to the time of admission to the University and who passed his entrance examinations with the highest average...
Gardiner Stuart Robinson of West Roxbury is the recipient of the $500 New England Federation of Harvard Clubs Scholarship. This award, the highest prize granted to a Freshman, is restricted to graduates of public or private New England schools. Robinson prepared at the Roxbury Latin School...
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Secondary British Delegate, 1924 recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Peace Award, tireless champion of the League of Nations...
...award of $2,000 to L. C. Graton, Professor of Mining Geology, from the Shaler Memorial Fund to aid his research work in the mines of Africa next year was announced yesterday. Professor Graton has previously been granted a Sabbatical for the year 1927-28 and backed by the Bureau of International Research has formed plans to study rock and ore formations in the world's deepest mines which are to be found in Brazil, South Africa, and South India...
Although Professor Graton will visit mines in all of these regions the Shaler award, is specifically for the study of copper deposits in the Belgian Congo and Rhodesia. The work in South Africa, however, will constitute only a small part of Professor Graton's extensive survey which comprises visits to every mine in the world over a mile deep and which takes in most of South America as well as Africa and certain spots in India and England...