Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election committee, which includes Conrad Alken, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell and Katherine Anne Porter, "aware that objections may be made," explained their choice: "To permit other considerations than that of poetic achievement to sway the decision, would destroy the significance of the award, and would, in principle, deny the validity of that objective perception of value on which any civilized society must rest...
Athletic Director Bill Bingham '16 altered the letter award system two weeks ago so that members of the winter track team could win a major H by placing in the Yale meet, but the new policy didn't result in much of a payoff at New Haven Saturday. Only ten men scored for the varsity, which took a 77-32 walloping in Yale's Coxe Cage...
Died. Herbert Stothart, 64, top-ranking composer of M-G-M cinemusical scores (Rose Marie, May time); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A onetime collaborator with Franz Lehar, Rudolph Friml and George Gershwin, Stothart won the 1939 Academy Award for his sprightly, hard-to-forget score for The Wizard...
...winning teams in each league will meet to decide the second round champion. This team will then battle it out with Hollis, which won in the before exams first round. The Athletic Committee plans to award Yard Championship medals to the players of the winning squad...
...award "for important contributions to civil rights" was made to football manager Frank S. Jones '50, who accepted the award on behalf of the football team and managerial corps, at a "Freedom Parade" program in Carnegie Hall in New York last Sunday night. Jones was confined to Stillman with a virus infection but acknowledged the award by telegram...