Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduating class took advantage of the opportunity for three-year graduation under an accelerated program. Faculty investigation, however, discovered lax standards and sloppy study practices in speeding up the award of a degree. Standards were stiffened and requirements lengthened, and the number of applicants for the program diminished immediately...
Wilbur, who is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley, won the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for his "Things of the World." He has also won the Blumenthal and Harriet Monroe Prizes for Poetry Magazine, and held a Guggenheim Fellowship...
...which it has not yet emerged. If long-sacred parity was laid low, the physicists argued eagerly, why shouldn't other lordly laws bite the dust too? Even gravitation, supposed to be pretty well explained by Einstein's general relativity, might be vulnerable. Last week the top award ($1,000) of the Gravity Research Foundation, New Boston, N.H. went to a paper by Physicist Philip Morrison of Cornell and Astronomer Thomas Gold of Harvard which argues that somewhere in the universe there may be anti-gravitation as a property of antimatter...
...University also announced the award of five fellowships for travel abroad last night. Peter N. Stearns '57 of Eliot House and Urbana, Ill., has received a Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship. Four men received Sheldon Travelling Fellowships: David E. Bertelson '57 of Lowell House and Salt Lake City, Utah; Robert S. Freeman '57 of Dunster House and Needham Heights, Mass.; Ronald Gold '57 of Lowell House and Wilmington, Del.; and George S. Reynolds '57 of Dunster House and Marblehead, Mass...
...University has announced the award of ten additional prizes and scholarships...