Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essay is considered by the judges to be worth the full award, the prize may be divided or else not given at all. The Society has the privilege of keeping any or all essays for depositing in the Dante Collection of the Harvard College Library. The last day on which essays may be submitted to the Dean of Harvard College is May 1, 1924. For details of the contest men may apply to Professor G. B. Weston...
...practical plan for international peace in which the U. S. can participate (TIME, July 9). The deadline for submitting plans brought the contest to a close with 22,165 plans submitted. On the last day over 700 were presented to the Policy Committee of the American Peace Award...
...Committee of Award, chairmanned by Elihu Root and including Brand Whitlock, Colonel Edward M. House, Major General James G. Harbord, William Allen White, has been considering the plans submitted for over a month. Its final decision is to be made about the first of the year. Then a straw vote of the country will be taken on the chosen plan...
...Robert Andrews Millikan, native American of Anglo-Saxon stock, was awarded the 1923 Nobel prize for physics. This is the fourth time that a Nobel award has been made to an American scientist.* The fact that 66 men and women in all have received Nobel decorations in physics, chemistry and medicine in the 23 years since they were inaugurated, gives America no particular license to crow. As Dr. Millikan himself has said, "We have not produced one-half as many-I think I may say one-fifth as many-out-standing scientific men in proportion to our population as have...
...award of the varsity "P" to the ten surviving members of the Princeton football team that first played Yale in 1873 recalls the days when football was less a science than a rough and tumble for bewhiskered gentlemen. On the walls of the Union there still hang quaint photographs to testify to the ferocious appearance of these doughty warriors. And the historian is apt to write that the last half of the past century saw the beginning of all things football. But an even more ancient lineage can be traced...