Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the Pulitzer Prize Committee gave its $1,800 music award to Ernst Bacon, a young San Franciscan whose First Symphony made him seem most worthy for study and travel in Europe. Columbia's Daniel Gregory Mason, Professor Seth Bingham and Dr. Frank Damrosch, Conductor Walter's brother, made the decision by reading the score. But until last week it seemed as though the $1,800 would be Composer Bacon's only return. His Symphony was never played until Conductor Issai Dobrowen forgot Tchaikovsky long enough to give it place of honor on the week...
Daniel Joseph Boorstin '34, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been awarded one of the scholarships offered by the Gulf Division of the Rhodes Foundation; Richard Bulger Schlatter '34, of Fostoria, Ohio, the New England Division award; and Richard Murphey Goodwin '34, of Newcastle, Indiana, the Central Division scholarship, it was announced last night by Frank Aydelotte, chairman of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee...
...minded individuals might pick Italo Balbo, leader of Italy's mass flight to the World's Fair, as the year's outstanding airman. But the Federation Aeronautique Internationale hinted that it would make no award this year, having honored Flyer Balbo once before...
Word has been received from the Vatican City that George D. Birkhoff, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded the biennial prize of 10,000 lira by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences for his memoir on the systems of differential equations. The prize award was conferred by Pope Plus XI, and in Professor Birkhoff's absence it was accepted for him by Professor Tallio Levi-Civita, member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences...
...college of this kind. But revolutionary changes are adjusted by time, and even secondary schools can be taught to improve. A more persistent enemy lies in the conviction that there was something holy and inviolable in the concept of course credits, in the idea that a college should award its degree on the basis of separate goals achieved, and the achievement recorded. To this conviction is linked an idea incomprehensible to the European, the idea that the college should police the minds of its undergraduates, perpetually making trivial demand upon their time, perpetually demanding that Tuesday, or at least next...