Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preparatory school newspaper, expressed in both material and editorial form in the past, is vindicated anew in the attainment of the fiftieth year of the Exonian, the newspaper of Phillips Exeter Academy. Although it has not fallen to the lot of the Exonian to win the CRIMSON award during the two years of the newspaper competition for preparatory schools, the separating margin between the Exonian and the winners has in each year been slight...
...consisting of Professor C. G. Osgood of Princeton, two Harvard professors, and two Yale professors, will be taken simultaneously at Cambridge and New Haven by the contestants. The neutral judges, Professor Osgood, Professor A. K. Potter of Brown and Professor J. O. Adams of Cornell, will decide on the award of the prize. The victorious team will win for its college library $5000 worth of books, besides which individual prizes will be given to the members of the team...
Wheeler was awarded the Lee Wade prize of $50 for his recitation of "Pecksniff to his daughters" by Charles Dickens. Vaccaro won the Boylston award of $50 with the poem "The Laughters" by Louis Untermeyer. Weaver, reciting "Abraham Lincoln" by Booker T. Washington, and Peterson, reciting "The Admiral's Ghost" by Alfred Noyes were awarded the two $30 Boylston prizes...
From 1917 to 1925, it might be well to point out here, one of the outstanding events connected with the annual Jubilee was the awarding of the Sophomore Class Memorial Scholarship of $400 to the Freshman who had made the most progress in athletics, extra-curriculum activities, and studies since entering College. The award was initiated by the Class of 1919 in the year 1917 when the Jubilee was not held but thereafter it was one of the high-lights of the celebration. The winner became the hero of the hour when called forth to receive the plaudits...
...music, laughter, and one of the largest crowds of merry-makers on record detracted from the effectiveness of the winning Smith Halls chorus. In 1925 the singers attracted even less interest, and the class of 1929 saw them fade from the picture at the same time the Memorial Scholarship award was discontinued. A new era dawned for the Jubilee. It became a dance, no more