Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Announcement was made last night of a novice fencing tournament to be held tomorrow. It will be open to all members of the University who have had no more than two years experience. The University Fencing Club will award a silver cup to the winner and a medal to the runner up, and Coach Danguy will give a prize foil to the man who shows the best knowledge of the technique of fencing...
Newspapers throughout the country, including The New York Times of Jan. 31, 1924, gave publicity recently to the announcement that one Pierson Worrall Banning of Los Angeles had been awarded ?2,500 as the Major Award of the Benjamin Franklin Fund for a book on Mental and Spiritual Healing. The announcement also said that Charles P. Steinmetz got the second award of ?1,000 for a privately published treatise The Nervous System as a Conductor of Electrical Energy and that a minor award had gone to a Japanese living in Tokyo. It was said that Banning's book...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, after an investigation "does not hesitate to express the opinion that the so-called Benjamin Franklin Fund does not exist and that the alleged major award to Banning is as big a hoax as the resurrection stunt at the Albany County Hospital." The latter allusion refers to a former incident in which Banning was involved. During the summer of 1923 newspaper editors received four typewritten pages, legal size, purporting to come from the Albany Chamber of Commerce. It dealt with the "most remarkable case in modern medical science" that had recently happened...
...available to graduates of the universities, colleges and technical schools of the United States who have shown, by the character of their work, that they could, with advantage, undertake or continue research work in educational institutions either in this country or abroad. The committee in charge desires to award the fellowships to men who, without financial assistance, would be unable to devote themselves to research work. Six were awarded last year. Applications from Seniors as well as graduates will be allowed, but any award to a Senior will be conditioned upon his being graduated...
...incumbent must be carrying on his studies under the supervision of the Department of Economics. Each candidate will be called on to write, in the examination room, an essay on a topic chosen by himself from a list, not previously announced, of subjects in economics and political science. The award will be made not later than June 1, without regard to the pecuniary means of the several candidates, but solely on their ability and promise...