Word: detur
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Upon the excellence of their previous year's academic record, 29 members of the University have been awarded Detur Prizes, given annually to students in the College or the Engineering School who for the first time win scholarships in the First Group or who graduate with degrees summa cum laude. Dean Hanford will make the awards in person some time this week...
...Detur prizes were awarded to five students in the Engineering School who attained a position in Group I of the Dean's List for the year 1925-26, on April 8, was made known yesterday. Those men are: A. J. Burdoin '27, of Minneapolis, Minn.; A. S. Edmonds '28, of Portland, Ore.; J. C. Harrold '27, of Dayton, Ohio; J. M. Slade '28, of New Britain Conn.; G. B. Van Schaack '29, of Coxsackle, N. Y.; and R. C. Waldron '28, of Somerville, Mass...
Forty-three Detur prizes have been awarded to deserving students, on a basis of their last year's records, it was announced yesterday by Dean C. N. Greenough '98. Detur prizes are given yearly to all students in Harvard College who, for the first time, achieve the average of First Group of the Dean's List. In accordance with a plan inaugurated this year, a Detur prize is to be given likewise, to each graduate who was awarded the degree of A.B. or S.B. Summa Cum Laude, in the preceding year...
...Detur prizes are given in the form of books a number of which belong in the first rank of literature: and others dealing with the letters, lives, and writings of famous Harvard men. They are chosen for students with special thought expended towards presenting the recipient with a book of interest to him, or which deal with his field or Concentration...
...Detur prizes have been presented to Harvard students since 1637, when Edward Hopkins, a London merchant who came to America, and who was several times Governor of the Connecticut Colony, made important educational be quests to New England in order "to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations, for the breeding up of hopeful youths, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times. The Detur prizes are among the oldest to be given at Harvard...