Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...league had a ruling prohibiting the use of more than two substitutes in a league contest. This applied to the Yale game as well as the others. This year Yale awarded thirteen letters, to its eleven regulars and two substitutes. Last year, and this one, for some reason, three extra Harvard men get their letters for playing against Yale. It seems to me unfair that thirteen men alone, in a game requiring eleven regulars, receive letters in the Yale game. If we look at the football team, we see eighteen or twenty men generally in the letter game, with...
...award, to E. E. Cummings, the most radical of the experimental poets of the day, of the Dial prize for the most noteworthy contribution to English letters during the past year, may be regarded as definite recognition of the new turn which imagistic poetry has taken. With the literature of the day presenting such a multi-colored and variegated pattern, critics prone to discover new literary epochs and fresh schools of thought are under a constant source of danger. The editors of the Dial, however, by selecting this ultra-impressionist for their award, have placed their finger on a phenomenon...
...Created by the arbitral award of President Coolidge (TIME, March 16) to administer a plebiscite for the purpose of determining whether the once Peruvian province of Tacna-Arica, now a part of Chile, shall be returned to Peru. The plebiscite, should have been held in 1894, according to the Treaty of Ancon in 1884; but after decades of wrangling, Chile and Peru voluntarily admitted the hopelessness of trying to hold it themselves and referred the matter to the President of the U.S. Chile desires Tacna-Arica as a strategic "buffer province" to protect her valuable nitrate fields from Peru. Peru...
...newspaper profession for the interest we are taking in their work, I wish that they would assassinate the terms rap, assail, attack and flay from news stories and headlines. Every newspaper I read is guilty of the use of these overused words, and I would even suggest the award of a Pulitzer prize for the newspaper man who devises substitutes for these pugnacious words" - Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University...
...first prize of $300 was awarded for Cromwell's essay on "The Theory of International Gold Movements." Chalufour's study entitled "Investment Banking in France" received the second award of $200. Honorable mention was received by Stilwell for his paper on "The Industrial Background of Modern China...