Word: contested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place in the batting order. Captain Isadore Zarakov '27 has made the most notable rise of the week, jumping from 255 to 286. Zarakov hit well in the Alumni game, blasting out a home run, and previously in the Providence game, his timely single in the ninth won the contest for the University...
...Woodrow Wilson $50,000 Prize Essay Contest, which closes October 1, 92 supplementary prizes, totalling $7000, will be awarded, it was announced yesterday by Mr. Henry Morgenthau Vice-President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. This is in addition to the two first prizes of $25,000 each,to be awarded to the man and woman whom the jury decide to have written the best 2500 word essays on "What Woodrow Wilson means...
...extra awards were voted by the Trustees of the Foundation as the result of many letters received from educators, university professors and others, all over the country, who felt that such prizes would add greatly to the value and interest of the contest by providing contestants with a larger number of chances...
...Hearty approval of the Contest," said Mr. Morgenthau, "has come from all quarters. Such men as President Green, of the American Federation of Labor Governor Ritchie of Maryland, the Honorable John Spargo, and Mr. Haley Fiske, President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, have not only endorsed the contest, but have cooperated actively. They have done so because they feel that this is not a scheme to create converts to the Democatic cause, but to broaden the outlook of our young men and young women with regard to principles and policies that far transcend in significance any division along party...
Prize folders giving complete details of the supplementary prizes, together with the rules of the contest can be obtained by writing to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 17 East 42nd Street, New York City...