Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This indicates how little interest has been shown in the University's endowed prizes since the war ended. Ten awards were not given last year because no entry met the standards of the various judging committees. Most of the 32 others had fewer competitors than...
...putting down an amount from 25 cents to five dollars the students stands a chance to win up to $1,000 for picking ten winners. However according to the BU paper it's not quite that easy. "Most of the games given you to choose from rank as the most important of the week, but at least two or three games are thrown in as ringers. These involve teams which are not too well known...
Unlike Widener's personal library which was given to Harvard with the building in 1915, this Gutenberg Bible reached the University only five years ago. Actually the book had never belonged to Widener, although it was in his family at the time of his death during the sinking of the Titanic...
Yale in the only other American university which has a Gutenberg Bible but Harvard officials say that the New Haven copy is not in "quite as fine condition" as the one here. At its last public sale, before Yale was given the copy, that Gutenberg Bible brought...
...occasion was the annual presentation of awards to "distinguished military students" of the Air Force and Field Artillery Corps. The awards are given, according to Major Kingston, to men who have displayed "outstanding qualities of military leadership, good moral character, and high academic standing...