Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speeches next April will mark the one hundred and eleventh consecutive year of its existence. The Boylston prizes, one of $50 and two of $30 each, which constitute the second, third, and fourth awards of the present combined competition were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston '35 in honor of his uncle who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory. It is the holder of this chair who has charge of the contest...
Since his graduation from Harvard in 1903 Dean Holmes has been engaged in work in education at Harvard. A celebration in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his work in education was recently held at the home of C. S. Thomas in Newton. Twenty-three members of the staff of the Graduate School of Education attended. The dinner was followed by a social hour in which Dean Holmes read a paper on the School of Education after which he was presented an engraved watch by members of the staff...
...hold the Presidential hat at the Inauguration. Newt Butler of West Branch, Iowa, was to have been official hat-holder, because as a boy he "licked the stuffing out of Bert Hoover." But now 92-year old J. W. Reeder of Tipton, six miles from West Branch, claimed the honor, chiefly on grounds of seniority. Mr. Hoover will decide the hat-holding problem personally...
...rowdy followers to sack Grande Riviere. Hanneken, then a sergeant, took a force of 21 men through the witching night. They rushed the camp, killed Charlemagne and nine of his ruffians, escaped to cover. The feat broke the backbone of Haitian banditry. Hanneken got the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...tough-knuckled fighters of the old Marine school. Each came to eminence through battle smoke and war fury. Both are Southerners. For each the Corps has a large, profane, unsentimental affection. Both are burdensomely decorated for bravery in action, Gen. Neville having the edge with a Congressional Medal of Honor for the cool way he seized Vera Cruz with the Second Regiment...