Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retired publisher of Philadelphia, went to New York and traveled up Fifth Avenue to the residence of Elihu Root. Mr. Root handed Mr. Bok a Christmas present?for which Mr. Bok is to pay $50,000, perhaps $100,000. It was the plan selected by the Jury of Award as the best of 22,165 plans submitted for the "American Peace Award...
Even before the judges have selected any of the several thousand essays submitted, Mr. Bok can report the success of his offer. Over a quarter of a million of American citizens asked about the plan, every newspaper published several news articles and an editorial on the award. Librarians from all over the country reported an unprecedented demand for books on foreign relations and previous peace-plans. It is easy to predict that Mr. Fliene's offer will produce very much this same result abroad...
...aside from this, and the actual plans which result, the American award many have a peculiar effect upon the American people. It has impressed upon everyone hearing of it the fact that "we are a part of the world, and must play our part in it". And more than turning the individual American mind toward a plan for world peace, the award has made him feel that a direct personal contact can be created between the people of the United States and its legislative and executive governments. If these awards do nothing more than crystal thinking upon the peace problem...
Here at Harvard both referenda will be conducted at the same time. Voting will take place in the College, Law School, Medical School and other Graduate Schools. Since the faculty will be reached in other manners for the peace award referendum they will not be asked to come to the polls, but will vote on Prohibition by a postal ballot...
Polls will be stationed at Austin Hall, the Medical School, Memorial Hall, Langdell Hall, the Crimson Building, and in one of the Freshman Dormitories. The results of the prohibition vote will be published immediately; but the Peace Award vote cannot be published until the national votes have been received at New York, sorted for duplicates, and counted. Then the Harvard votes will be published in comparison with the national total...