Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second annual competition for the medal given by the Comite France-Amerique of Paris will be held in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building this evening at 8 o'clock. Founded in 1918 by the Comite France-Amerique, this prize is awarded annually to the successful contestant in a public competition in French declamation on some subject, drawn from the history of French civilization. The six contestants will speak in French, and a program of French music will be rendered between speeches and while the judges are deliberating, by M. and Mme. George Mager...
...hole qualifying round of the University golf championship tournament will be played today on the Oakley Country Club course in Watertown. All men in the University, regardless of whether they are out for golf, are eligible to compete, and the sixteen men with the lowest medal scores will qualify. Day playing cards must be secured at the H. A. A. at the price of $1 by those who do not have memberships at Oakley, and all who compete must register at the first too before beginning play...
...wrestling meet Saturday night at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., MacDonell carried off the medal in the 158-pound class, and now holds the New England title in his weight. Under his captaincy, with the majority of the University team back, and a number of promising candidates from 1923, prospects for the 1920 University team are brighter than for several years past...
Preliminary trials for the France-Amerique Medal Debate will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Sever 11. Candidates must be prepared to speak, in French, for five minutes on some subject connected with French civilization. The trials will not be public, but will be held before three judges, Professor Louis J. A. Mercier, Professor E. L. Raiche, and Professor R. L. Hawkins of the French Department. Of those who compete, six will be chosen to speak in the final debate to be held...
...profession in Boston or was looking after the health of the officers and soldiers in the United States Army, many of his early year being spent in the Southwest where he campaigned against the Indians so faithfully and bravely that Congress conferred its greatest gift upon him--the Congressional Medal of Honor. Many people, too, think that President Roosevelt jumped him over the heads of many hundreds of officers to a Brigadiership, when as a matter of fact it was President McKinley who made him a Brigadier because of his talents exhibited during the Spanish War. Readers will recall that...