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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcement has been made of the Award of the prizes offered by the Societa Nazionale Dante Alighieri of Boston are Otto Gambacorta '35 and Anthony J. DeVito 1G as the two students who have most distinguished themselves this year in their study of Italian and by promoting here the interests of Italian culture...
Unquestionalbly there were injustices and irregularities in the original award of air mail contracts. Undenbtedly officers of companies speculated and made profits, but the method of procedure for such things is to put the evidence before the courts, put the guilty in jail and meanwhile let the service to the public...
...trouble in the first instance about competitive Lidding. The Post Office Department found it couldn't accept just anybody's bid. There had to be a determination of who would be able to perform, who could carry out the contracts. This is why the law provided for the award to the "lowest responsible" bidder and ultimately made it necessary for departmental discretion to be used in order to get the best service in different parts of the country for the public...
Gregory Paul Baxter, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, has been presented the Theodore William Richards Medal, awarded biennially by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society for "outstanding eminence in the field of pure chemistry." The award is particularly appropriate, because Professor Baxter's work has been in the field in which the late Professor Richards distinguished himself and won the Nobel Prize...
...Alumni Day last week President Harold Willis Dodds made this year's award. Though the winner was a 12-year-old Arlington, Mass, schoolboy in 1922, it seemed to proud Princeton men that the prize had been created expressly for such...