Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schiff, who until last year had made possible the presentation of a $100 prize to the winner of the contest, did not make any provision in his will for the continuation of the gift. Beginning with next year, however, the B'Nal B'rith Society of Boston will award $100 to the winner of the contest, which will again be included among the activities of the Menorah Society. Previously the prize has been given for the best essay by an undergraduate on a subject connected with the work and achievements of the Jewish people...
During the progress of the dinner, the four Union prizes for Freshmen, based on scholastic rank and general class activities up to Mid-Years, will be awarded. The prize-winners in the Union's Best Essay Competition will also be announced. Over 75 essays were submitted in this competition and the judges have taken three months in reaching their decision. In addition to the regular prizes, the Governing Board of the Union will present each winner with a book, upon the fly-leaf of which will be inscribed a statement of the terms of his award...
...competition for the Lee Wade and Boylston prizes for elocution last evening in Sanders Theatre, the first award which was the Lee Wade prize of $50, went to Eliot Dole Hutchinson '22 of Lowell, who recited "The Common Man", by Charles E. Jefferson. The judges were out for three-quarters of an hour before they could give any decision as to the other awards. The only first Boylston prize of $30 awarded was given to Edward Augustus Weeks Jr. '22 of Elizabeth, N. J., on the merits of an excellent recital of Rudyard Kipling's "Wee Willie Winkie". Benjamin Arthur...
...competition for the Boylston and Lee Wade prizes for public speaking wit he held in Sanders Theatre on Thursday, May 12 at 8 o'clock. The competitions for both prizes will be held at the same time the award of $50 for the lee Wade prize will be the highest offered. The order in which the men will speak will determined by lot; the contestants and their subjects are as follows...
...best monument is the work that he has accomplished, and undoubtedly this is true of the great master of the American short-story, O. Henry. Those who knew him personally, and many who knew him through his writing alone, have done well, nevertheless, in establishing an Annual Memorial Award, as an inspiration for workers in the field of the short story, for by a definite form of recognition, O. Henry's chosen art is given a genuine standard of merit...