Word: awarded
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Harvard student composers and authors of musical plays are invited to enter the annual fellowship competition of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, which has headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York. The country has been divided into eight zones in each of which an award of $7202 will be made for the composers of the winning entry. The deadline...
...Harvard Athletic Association has announced the award of athletic insignia to 168 winter sports athletes...
...staid, collective conformity. To Academicians, as usual, went the pick of the 16 prizes. Painter Abram Poole got a $750 Altman Prize for Young Dancer, a demure Victorian damsel in a flowing pink dress. To the new president, tweedy, grey-haired Hobart Nichols, went an award for Winter Pattern, one of his customary snow-covered landscapes. Said pleased President Nichols: "The Academy is like a pendulum to a clock-it assures a rational, regular, orderly progress. It has no room for experimentalists. . . . The Academy can afford to wait...
...recognition of their effort. For under Harvard's unique and cobweb-hung system, not those who compete, but only those who place against Yale earn a full emblem. A man can be one of the two best on his squad in an event, and still not display the big award. It takes at least fifteen men to play a football game, and they all get their letter, win or lose. To swim the nine events in a regular A. A. U. meet, thirteen or fourteen are needed. But they have to defeat the best swimmers in the country before they...
Yesterday another course began, for the rank of instructor, which will last for two and a half weeks. To be eligible for this award, applicants must have been Senior life-savers for at least a year...