Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quaint sanctum of the Lampoon yesterday afternoon a medal inscribed "Lampy to Francis W. Saunders for the Best Artistic Work of his Year" was presented to that editor in token of his winning the $1500 Scholarship award for foreign study, offered this year for the first time to "the Senior editor with the most deserving artistic or literary merit...
...ceremony was simple and unostentatious. Mr. John Templeman Coolidge '79, whose drawings appeared in the Lampoon during its first year, announced the decision of the Committee of award to a group of editors assembled for tea. Besides the money award to Saunders, a second medal, signifying Honorable Mention, was awarded to Lovering Hathaway, Sp. Mr. J. T. Wheelwright '76, one of the founders of the magazine, presented the medals on behalf of the Trustees. In his speech of presentation he stressed the value of the prize in stimulating cooperative work for the Lampoon by the editors...
...more effective, if idealistic, means of using the newspapers to reform a hopelessly wicked world would seem to be the adoption of a policy of rewarding virtue, rather than sin, with publicity. But hither to stories of the award of Carnegie and Congressional medals have usually served as somewhat uninteresting fillers on inside pages. And there seems to be little hope of changing the character of the daily news, for as Dr. Lee aptly said. "It is the taste of the fish and not that of the fisherman, which denotes the kind of bait to be used;" and the reading...
...addition to making the nominations the Student Council beard the reports of several committees, ratified the action of the Executive Committee in approving the Union nominations, and recommended to the Athletic Committee the award of letters to the wrestling team. The Council also decided that hereafter recommendations for letter awards shall go from the manager (in case of a major sport team) and from the Minor Sports council (in case of a minor sport) directly to the Athletic Committee. However, the Council made it entirely plain by its resolution that it entirely reserved the right to consider the award...
...interest which has been aroused by the award of these prizes of slight pecuniary value is significant. Most of the Utopias of social reformers have foundered upon the reef of man's inherent self-seeking; and the necessity of the spur of personal gain has come to be frankly recognized. The greatest works of art and literature have doubtless never been inspired by this motive; yet with economic life pictured by Smith and Ricardo it has been deemed indispensable. While the Pulitzer prizes are for the most part a recognition of the merit of work produced under the stress...