Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chosen by Coach J. L. Danguy, following an elimination tournament among all Freshmen taking the sport. A fencing glove has been presented by Coach Danguy to S. S. Morrill '31 for the best fencing form in the meet. H. B. Wesselman '31 was the runner up for the trophy award...
...probability the editors of the CRIMSON who instituted the contest had no other motive than the offering of encouragement to men engaged in work which, in both preparatory school and college, is altogether too much its own reward. With the award of the second trophy the contest can be said to take on a greater significance. Yearly the university and college daily is assuming a more vital position in the life of the institution and of the undergraduate. With its greater responsibility and influence it needs a distinctive type of man, a man with a trained systematic mind capable...
...Swedish inventor of dynamite, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, did not, strictly speaking, found and endow a "Peace Prize." Phrasemakers coined that term. It has come to suggest a shining award, fit only for such world-great champions as Theodore Roosevelt, who won it in 1906, or Woodrow Wilson, to whom it fell in 1918. Yet the words of M. Nobel are clear. What he founded and endowed was no simple "Peace Prize" but an award "for fraternization among nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the calling and propagating of peace congresses...
Thus it happened that the Nobel "Peace Prize" for 1927 was awarded, last week, to two elderly and little-known "fraternizers among nations": Professor Doktor Ludwig Quidde of the University of Munich, 69; and Professor Ferdinand Buisson, 86, retired, onetime preceptor at the Sorbonne. When the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), which is charged with making the award, announced its decision, last week, a teapot-tempest of press indignation seethed...
Donna Grazia Deledda, Italian authoress of Sardinian tales, received the 1927 literature award. Medical diplomas for 1926 and 1927 went respectively to Dr. Johannes Fibiger, Danish cancer expert; and to Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Viennese professor of medicine. Finally the 1927 physics award was shared by two scholarly investigators of electrophysics: Professors Arthur Holly Compton (U.S.) and Charles T. R. Wilson (Britain...