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...other prize is the Francis Boott Prize, to be awarded to the writer of the best composition in concerted or vocal music. The competition is open to undergraduates and members of any of the graduate schools of the University. The amount of the prize is one hundred dollars, and is the income of a fund established by Francis Boott '31, of Cambridge...
...Coolidge is noted for his remarkable success in conducting great business enterprises. In 1858 he was chosen president of the Boott Manufacturing Company, which owned three large cotton mills in Lawrence. After he had restored the company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, to a strong financial basis, he went to France for several years, returning to this country to manage the Lawrence Cotton Manufacturing Company. In 1876 he accepted the position of treasurer of the Amoskeag Mills, which he resigned in 1897, when he became interested in railroads...
...fund was bequeathed to Harvard College by Francis Boott, of the class of 1831, which provides for an annual prize of one hundred dollars to be awarded to the writer of the best composition in concerted vocal music; Mr. Boott's desire that the type of music exemplified in Cherubini and Mozart should be followed. This competition is open to undergraduates and members of any Graduate School; the composition must be for at least four voices, and may be either with or without accompaniment, the text being either secular or sacred...
...Susan Anthony Potter Prize of $75 for the best essay on a subject dealing with the Spanish literature of the Golden Age, goes to Elliot Doniger '20 of New York City. The Francis Boott Prize of $100 awarded to the writer of the best composition in concerted vocal music goes to R. N. Dett Sp of Hampton, Va., while the George Arthur Knight Prize for the best composition in instrumental music goes to Randall Thompson '20 of Lawrenceville, N. Y. The Jeramy Bleknap Prize of $50 for the best French composition written by a first-year student in Harvard College...
...Francis Boott prize in musical composition has been awarded to Robert Nathaniel Dett, a special student of Hamption, Va., for the chorus, without accompaniment, entitled. "Don't be Weary, Traveller." The chorus, with accompaniment, "Night," by Randall Thompson '20, of Lawrenecville, N. J., was given honorable mention...