Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flung recognition soon came to the Harrises. In 1926, the Enquirer-Sun received the Pulitzer Prize for journalism for "disinterested and meritorious public service," and Julian Harris was placed on the Pulitzer advisory award jury. And when, last year, the Enquirer-Sun celebrated its 100th anniversary, many a famed journalist sent praising messages to the Editors Harris...
...assembled on the Edison lawn, talked of the test as they waited announcement of who had won. Various rumors spread. It was claimed that the judges were still debating after an all night session. It was suggested that Inventor Edison, disgusted with the results, had decided to give no award...
Decorated. Kenesaw Mountain Landis, National Commissioner of Baseball; with the American Legion Distinguished Service Medal; in Chicago. General John Joseph Pershing and Admiral Robert Edward Coontz are the only other U. S. personages who have received the award...
...further award was announced at the same time that of a traveling scholarship to Edward Osborne Bassett of Watertown, who graduated magna cum Laude in Economics. This award was made possible by a surplus in the Shaw Fund...
...annual award of honorary degrees is an opportunity to recognize genuine greatness. This year's list is perhaps typical, and each one of the recipients represents one of the accomplishments toward which the University tries to direct its students. The honorary degree is the discriminating praise of a wise and impartial judge. It must be used not simply as further honor for men who have already won fame, but as the reward of greatness in the world's most honorable activities...