Word: award
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...outsprint every big man in the league and most of the little men. That combination, plus his aw-shucks, farm-boy manner, made Mighty Mick an instant folk hero. In his first 14 seasons, he led the Yankees to a remarkable twelve pennant victories, won the Most Valuable Player award three times and the triple crown once, in 1956, when he batted .353, slammed 52 home runs and drove in 130 runs. His lifetime mark of 536 homers ranks only behind Babe Ruth's 714 and Willie Mays...
...Faculty of Law voted yesterday to award the degree of Doctor of Law (J.D.) instead of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) for the regular three-year law program...
Dean Derek C. Bok appointed a Faculty committee early last Fall to study whether Harvard should award the J.D. degree. The committee issued a 16-page memorandum to the Faculty on March 7 recommending the changes the Faculty made today. Bok said "not a single voice was raised against the change" at the Faculty meeting...
...clearly the only difference between the two teams. The 6-2, 210-pound, netman was intimidating from the first minutes of the contest. Harvard outshot Cornell and had many more clear shots, but Dryden nullified the advantage, making 37 saves to win the tournament's most valuable player award for the second straight year...
Each recipient of an award will receive a grant covering his expenses and an honorarium of $600 "to compensate him for what he might otherwise have earned in a summer job." A four-member faculty selection committee under the chairmanship of John Clive, chairman of the History and Literature Department, will make the awards in mid-April. Three students, all members of the Institute's Student Advisory Committee, will serve as "consultants" to the faculty selection committee...