Word: medallions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which has been placed on display is a copy of "Silex Scintillans", by Henry Vaughan, Silurist, published in 1650. This work by the well known English religious poet is bound in heavy green leather with designs traced in gold. In the center of the outer cover is a silver medallion. The following is a complete list of the authors on exhibition: John Cleveland, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Stanley, Sir John Suckling, Sir John Taylor, George Wither, Frances Quarles, Henry Vaughan, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, John Davies John Taylor, the Water-Poet, Giles Fletcher the Younger, Sir William Davenant, James Harrington, Richard...
...album was presented by the Emperor, William 1 and the Empress Augusta to Dr. Thomas W. Evans, a famous dentist of Paris. Beside the elaborate binding the volume contains a medallion of the Emperor. It has been temporarily deposited in the Library for exhibition by C.F. Muller...
...centennial medal of the University of Virginia, date 1921, with the head of Jefferson on the reverse is also shown. Besides this, is a copy of the medallion which commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters...
...first prize, according to tentative plans, will consist of $1000 in cash to pay the expenses of a year at college and will also include a specially designed medallion in gold. The second award will provide for $750 and a silver medallion, and the third $500 and a bronze medallion...
...naturally desired that some insignia be adopted to serve the same purpose that the coveted "H" does to the athlete, and at a very early date the University debating authorities awarded to the men who took part in intercollegiate debates an irregularly shaped medal bearing upon its face a medallion of Cicero and suitably engraved upon the back with the recipient's name and the memorandum of the debate in which he took part. Some time after the Corporation placed the control of debating in the hands of a Supervisory Committee and imposed upon this committee among other duties, that...