Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McKeen Cattell of Columbia University, who was dismissed in 1917 "without proper charges or heating, accused of 'sedition, treason, and opposition to the enforcement of the law of the United States'" Subsequently, he sued the trustees for libel and demanded the pension to which he was nominally untitled. An award of 245,000 was recently made him. It is a question, avers the "Nation", whether in 1917 the jury would have awarded the verdict in the man's favour, despite the justice of his cause. "But," concludes the comment, "times have changed, and universities can no longer bully a professor...
...fences, carried through others, and carried round, and round the arena. Then there was a cowboy, the best rider in the West, who because he was a Pendleton boy had to "ride out" four of the worst horses in a period of forty-five minutes before the judges would award him the championship for that year. And this in spite of the fact that he had entered the contest with a broken right forearm...
...voted to award numerals to the following five members of last year's Freshman crew squad who went to Red Top as substitutes: Horatio, Bigelow '24, Standish Bradford '24, S. N. Brown '24, E. N. Carson '24, and J. D. Jamieson '24. It was also voted to recommend to the Athletic Committee that five Freshman crew substitutes be taken to New London and given their numerals each year. Until last year it was customary to reward only two men in this...
...denied commissions, why not put the matter to them? It is probable that there are that number of men in the Academy who would be glad to return to civilian life. Let them signify their desire to do so and give them their discharge papers when they graduate. Or, award the permissible number of commissions on a scholastic basis from among the members of the present four classes. Only in one of these ways can a just reduction be made...
...Woodrow Wilson Foundation is asking the public to contribute to a fund which has two objects. One is to make possible an award, from time to time, in recognition of some meritorious service to humanity. The other object is to signalize, through associating his name with the award, the public service of a living American. Here enters inevitably, the element of personal and political feeling. Woodrow Wilson, like Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt, possessed the faculty of inspiring intense admiration and intense hatred. Many of his friends believe him to be the noblest figure in our political life since Lincoln...