Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent meeting of the Flying Club Directors, it was announced that an award will be made by the Club, for which the licensed pilots may compete. The award will consist of a handsome trophy and two hours of free flying in the club's plane. Efficiency as a field manager of the airport, a general regard for safety, and the number of hours in the air, are the elements on which the competitors will be judged...
Registration for all men intending to compete for the University's third oldest award, the Boylston and Lee Wade Public Speaking Prizes, will close on Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock in Holden Chapel. All Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores in good standing are eligible. The only requirement is that memorized selections, about five minutes in length, from some standard piece of literature, must be approved by Professor F. C. Packard...
...Boylston prizes, which consist of one $50 and two $30 awards, were founded in 1817, while the Lee Wade prize, a single award of $50, was established in 1916. The terms of the awards call for the repetition by some member of the three upper classes in College, of a memorized selection of poetry or prose chosen from a piece of standard English Latin, or Greek literature...
Bishop Cannon is the first to receive the Christian Herald's award, which hereafter will be annual. Since the Christian Herald is the largest Protestant weekly in the U. S. its award is a matter of no small moment. In time, Editor High and Chain-Store Tycoon James Cash Penney, who is president of the Christian Herald Association, Inc., hope to have their award rated as a sort of Nobel prize for religion. Unlike the Nobel prizes, however, Christian Herald awards will go to none but U. S. citizens...
...contiguity of Tycoon Penney and President-Elect Hoover, who chose the Penney mansion at Miami for his pre-inaugural retreat, added an emphasis to the Cannon award. It was perhaps circumstantial, perhaps significant, that a close and potent friend of Mr. Hoover's should regard Dry fervor as religious service...