Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner in honor of the winners of the 1927 Harvard advertising awards held at the Harvard Business School last night, the annual prizes founded in 1923 by Edward W. Bok were announced. J. H. McGraw, president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, was awarded the gold medal for distinguished contemporary services to advertising in recognition of his lifelong service in the raising of higher standards of advertising in the business press of the country. A total of $14,000 in prizes was awarded "for distinguished individual advertisements and advertising campaigns...
Captain H. W. Burns '28 was awarded both the Wendell Bat and the Wingate Trophy at the baseball dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston last night. The Wendell Bat, donated by Barret Wendell Jr. '02, was awarded to Captain Burns for totalling the most points in sacrifice hits, stolen bases, runs, and safe arrivals at first base during the past season. The Wingate Trophy, donated by D. J. P. Wingate '14, was given to Burns for being the best all around player of the season...
...meeting is to be preceded by a dinner for twelve prominent boxers at 6.30 o'clock at the Varsity Club. Among these men will be Jack Sharkey, heavyweight aspirant, who is scheduled to give an exhibition bout with a well known heavyweight boxer. Another bout of interest will be that between two members of this year's football team, W. W. Lord '28 and John Parkinson '29. Preceding these exhibitions Dane Egan is scheduled to give a talk on boxing. Details of the spring practice and the coaches engaged will also be announced. J. L. Knox '98 will explain...
...magazines and dean's offices, has at last come into its own. Naming thus a new kind of course that will be part of the reorganized Columbia curriculum, an action vaguely suggestive of giving a dog a bad name, Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of the college announced at a dinner of Columbia alumni that in his judgement "snap courses serve an excellent purpose." Such a statement, it would seem, would have few farther flung associations than that with the cultivated tastes of the student vagabond of Harvard. But closer examination reveals a similarity of educational ideas that is more than...
...THAT DINNER AT BARDOLPH...