Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grace Moore and Jeanette MacDonald sing very prettily, but give the Moviegoor Deanna Durbin every time after the latter's performance in "100 Men and a Girl." Frome one who suffers from a definite aversion to child prodigies in any form, it is definitely disconcorting to have to award the palm to a fourteen year old warbler of the most unsophisticated type...
...your Sept. 6 issue I have read the account of the award of the top prizes in the recent Old Gold contest. Is it not true that William R. Staggs, winner of the first prize of $100,000, had to split this prize with his contest partner, Addison Pound Jr., of Gainesville...
Swimming team sweaters will be used exclusively in order to give uniformity of costume. In the past, the lettermen have been allowed to wear the award won in their own particular sport. An effort will also be made to see that only clean white flannels are worn...
...Columbia, went abroad with the A. E. F., made a brief venture into business, turned to chemistry teaching, is now chairman of a high-school science department, has never held a post of high scientific distinction. Yet in 1930 he won the Francis Bacon Award for the Humanizing of Knowledge with Crucibles, an account of the lives and work of great chemists...
Dean Johnston's suggestions for ending this educational prodigality: Let high schools divide their labor, some preparing students for college, others for work and citizenship. Let the last two years of high school be combined with the first two of college and award B.A.s at that point. Let only select students go on to real university scholarship. Let Minnesota establish a sliding scale of fees: no charge for honors students; $80 a year for those who pass; $200 for the slow, $400 for determined dullards...