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France's Prix Femina is a literary award (5,000 francs) that was created in 1904 to lend to novels by and about women a prestige formerly denied them: France's top literary honor, the august Prix Goncourt, is reserved for male authors only. Last week, the 17 elderly French women writers who award the Prix Femina found their task too grisly, seemed about ready to leave prize-giving to the menfolk. "Life in today's novel," said one of the judges in an interview, "is twisted to eroticism. For instance...
Chen, an astronomy major, was one of ten American students named for the award, which carries with it a grant of $600. A graduate of the Horace Mann School in New York City, he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa...
Another Rosemary Casy won a $5,000 award for "The Velvet Gloves" before it was produced, but she was not satisfied with merely the plaudits of the Christopher prize. She approached Guthrie McClintic who agreed to produce and direct the play, Donald Ocnslager '23, who agreed to do the setting, and then she went about getting Grace George out of a seven year retirement to play the leading part...
Under the Regional Scholarship program, the actual amount of the award to each scholar will depend directly on individual financial need. Selection of men to receive the scholarship will be made on a basis of aptitude for business training, without regard to financial used. In extreme cases, the scholarship may cover the entire cost of a man's training for business administration...
...Carnahan: Student Council Freshman Affairs Committee, D. P. Project, Ames Award, P.B.H...