Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beta Kappa Society at the University is using a new electoral system this year, it was announced last night. The primary basis for judging the 22 men elected from the first 44 in scholastic rating in the Senior class will be the reports submitted by the tutors of the honor...
Commonwealth were entertained off Portsmouth, Eng., by impressive naval war games, in honor of their visit to England to attend at London the Imperial Conference (TIME...
...Manhattan last week; on the stage of Carnegie Hall, Conductor Walter Damrosch lifted his baton high for the first New York Symphony concert of the season. Mozart had the honor of beginning, with his energetic Symphony in D, cooked to order at his father's command to tickle the palate of a Salzburg burgomaster. Schumann was next with his Concerto in A Minor, with Pianist Alfred Cortot to spin the important thread cunningly. Then came a stranger, Jacques Ibert, with three pieces from his ballet suite, Les Rencontres, given its U. S. premiere a fortnight ago by the Boston...
...founders" of Children's Book Week was Co-Editor Frederic Gershom Melcher of the Publisher's Weekly (trade organ), long high in bookmen's councils. In 1921 he supplied the American Library Association with a medal, named in honor of Publisher John Newbery of England, an early advocate of particular books for particular small people. This medal was to be awarded annually to that U. S. writer who should make the "most distinguished" contribution to U. S. literature for children. It was no secret that Mr. Melchei hoped by this ruse to induce able writers to turn...
Proceeding up Mt. Aubura Street I shall then turn left on Boylston Street and continue along it to Lars Anderson Bridge. This bridge it has been said, was named in honor of a companion of the famous lief Erieson who sailed up the river now known as the Charles and built a house on its banks where he lived until driven away by the universites. Later investigation has, how ever, shown this story to be without truncation...