Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Voting throughout the University on two nation-wide referenda will be conducted by the CRIMSON one week after the Christmas recess, probably on January 10. The questions to be put to a vote are Prohibition and the award of the Bok Peace Prize...
...ballot on the Bok Prize will be worded: "Do you approve the winning plan in substance?" The competition for the prize ended November 15 and the Jury of Award expects to reach a decision by January 1. The Policy Committee of the American Peace Award, believing that a popular reaction to the winning plan is all-important, have decided to organize a nation wide vote, more especially since Americans have never before been able to vote individually on questions relating to Foreign Relations. The vote is being conducted by newspapers, magazines, fraternities, alumni associations, Mayors' Committees, etc., all over...
...three Fratellini Brothers, clowns, were awarded academic palms for cheerfulness by the French Government. This was said to be the first time such an award had been made since the days of court jesters...
...unnecessary losses ever suffered by science. Madame Curie struggled on with her two small daughters, and continued their great work until, in 1910, she isolated the mysterious white metal of radium itself. That her own achievements were as great as her husband's was attested by the Nobel Award in Chemistry (1911) to her alone, eight years after the Physics Prize had been given jointly to Becquerel, Pierre Curie and herself. The Sorbonne appointed her to the chair left vacant by Pierre?the first woman to be so elevated...
...conditions for the contest are not unusual. The manuscript must not have been published before; the donors reserve the copywright privilege; no award will be made if no essay is judged of sufficient merit by the committee of judges, on which Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 is the Harvard representative...