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...England, Miss Cannon was the first person in the world to be elected an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society of London. Among other honors she has received are Henry Draper medal of scientific achievement and the establishment in her honor of the Annie J. Cannon award for distinguished women astronomers...
Richard Samuel Salant '35, of New York City, has been awarded the first prize in the Bowdoin Prize Essay contest for excellence in English essay writing, it was learned last night. The award carries a stipend...
...demonstration of interest and its proficiency in intra-mural sports, Lowell House will be awarded the new Percy S. Straus Trophy. Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of intramural athletics, will make the award to Andrew G. Webster '37, the athletic manager for the house at a House dinner to be given soon...
...first of these proposed scholarship funds will provide for the award of an annual cash prize to that student who, in the opinion of the Spanish Department, has attained the highest distinction in Spanish literature. The second will afford substantial aid to men of restricted means who are majoring in Spanish. The Club hopes to be able, in future years, to establish a scholarship for study at the University of Madrid...
...Arthur Krock, able chief of the New York Times's Washington staff, went the $500 award for distinguished Correspondence. A newsman for 29 of his 48 years, bespectacled Arthur Krock first covered Washington for the late great "Marse Henry" Watterson, whose Louisville Courier-Journal he later edited. In 1923 he joined the New York World's distinguished staff of editorial writers, thence to the Times. Four years ago he reluctantly returned to Washington, which he disliked, to succeed the late Richard V. Oulahan as Times chief of staff. Remaining severely on the sidelines, immune to official blandishments, Arthur...