Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...award of the medal is made at irregular intervals to men who have done conspicuous service in bringing into the United States useful and valuable plants. In a letter which accompanied the medal, the Council of the American Genetic Association referred to Dr. Sargent as "easily the outstanding leader in the world of plant introduction...
...award of the Pulitzer literary prizes for the year of 1922 has aroused the usual flicker of controversy. Amiable ladies and gentle men have as gallantly as unsolicitedly taken the occasion to rush into print and explain exactly how they feel as to relative justice and intelli gence shown in the awards. Meanwhile the weary judges, let us hope, are recuperating in some pleasant clime unvexed by newspaper-clippings. It must be the devil of a business, hunting among contemporary books and plays for a Cinderella to fit the little glass slipper...
...Bertillon system having yet been invented for literature or the drama, these qualifications ? except where they concern matters of ascertainable fact, such as the citizenship of the author, or the year of a play's nativity ? must, in general, be dodged when the time comes for the award of the laurel wreath. Very sensibly, too?but, why have the qualifications in the first place? Could there not be one prize, awarded with out qualification, to what, in the opinion of its judges, was a good piece of work...
Heywood Broun (who protested loudly the wisdom of this year's Pulitzer award): " More than possible that Dew Drop Inn will win the Pulitzer Prize for next year...
...Class B group, in which the prizes are $300 and $200 respectively, is restricted to undergraduates of any American college. The committee, however, reserves to itself the right to award the two prizes of $1000 and $500 of Class A to undergraduates in Class B, if the merits of the papers demand...