Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each of these seven heroes President Roosevelt last week handed the nation's highest award for airmail pilots-the Air Mail Flyers' Medal of Honor...
...pointed out that privately endowed institutions should break down "sectionalism, the bane of any country" by admitting students from all parts of the country. As a necessary corollary he reiterated his belief once again that colleges should award "a considerable number of scholarships with large stipends" to "the boy or girl with great ability but no money...
...further state that "unless actual discrimination in athletics is proven, there is no valid reason for American athletes to refuse to compete in Berlin". A month ago Tschammor-Osten announced that the highest award in German sport could in the future be acquired only by Germans of Aryan descent. With the approval of Tschammor-Osten all non-Aryans have been excluded from membership in the clubs which are federated in the Reich Association for Physical Culture. Catholics and Protestants are not permitted to maintain their own sports clubs or to enter in sport unless they are willing to affiliate with...
...consists entirely of a Board of Regents who administer the State's educational system, set the Regents Examinations, second in stiffness only to those of the College Entrance Board. But, being a chartered university, it also cherishes certain prerogatives. Among these are to dress up, make speeches, award honorary degrees. Last week President Frank Pierrepont Graves presented Dr. Peabody with the year's only degree, an L. H. D. (Doctor of Humanities...
...amount of the award varies in each case with the financial need of the particular student. If there is no pressing need the student receives only a nominal sum as a prize. If he requires assistance, the stipend is increased accordingly...