Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stipends are given under the will of Anna Clapp Frothingham in memory of her husband, a member of the Class of 1886. The will instructs F. S. Von Stade, Jr. '38's Committee on Scholarships to award the funds to "seniors who best exemplify the qualities of excellent scholarship, manliness, and effective support of the best interests of Harvard University...
...Mathias, who outran, out-jumped, and out-threw 34 of the world's best last summer to become the youngest (17) Olympic decathlon champion in history, became the youngest to win the James E. Sullivan Memorial Award as 1948's amateur of the year. He also ran a close second to baseball's highly professional Lou Boudreau in the poll for the year's No. 1 male athlete...
...Note--To give a complete explanation of the award problem would require too much space, since the HAA has scores of reservations and ruling ratifications. In trying to boll down the subject to reasonable size, the editorial in question was obliged to over-simplify in presenting both problem and solution. Even Mr. Norris has failed to mention all the technicalities; for instance, in cross-country, the first three places in the H-Y-P meet receive major letters. It is also true that Mr. Bingham and his staff are currently aware of the problem, but they have been aware...
Thomas J. Hyde of Kirkland House and Belmont: Secretary, Crimson Key Society; Secretary, Combined Charities Drive; Secretary, PBH; Varsity Tennis Manager; Pennock Award...
...York Star Columnist John S. Wilson tossed Columnist Walter Winchell a 1948 award: "The hand-tooled, self-propelled backscratcher for the Most Excessive Narcissistic Applause...