Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coach to the cause of Harvard Athletics were remembered in the action of the H. A. A. last night when Coach Edward L. Farrell was honored. But there is in that inscription more than mere words. Admiration and honor both find expression in the simple sentence engraved on the medal...
Edward L. Farrell, University track coach, last night was awarded a medal in recognition of his faithful care of William F. (Pooch) Donovan, veteran Harvard trainer, who was forced by sickness to return to the United States immediately after his arrival in Amsterdam for the 1928 Olympics...
...award came at the annual H. A. A. dinner held at the Harvard Union for the coaches, the Administrative Board, and the Assistant Deans, W. J. Bingham '16. Director of Athletics, presented the medal, a bronze disk bearing on one surface an inscription, in Greek, composed by E. K. Rand '94, professor of Latin, meaning "athletics is the body's harmony". The obverse side carries the lines...
When, seven years ago, the late great Charles Albert Coffin† resigned the chairmanship of General Electric Co. (which he founded by merger, 1892) to Owen D. Young, his practical associates established in his honor the Charles A. Coffin Medal. It goes each year to a railway company which during the year has made a distinguished contribution to the development of electric railway transportation for the convenience of the public and the benefit of the electrical industry. Last week the recipient was the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad. Electric railway men consider it the most important accomplishment...
...great builder of bridges is Ralph Modjeski and honored last week with his sixth scientific medal. But, except for his own stubborn leaning to engineering and his fond mother's indulgence, he might have been a musician or actor. For his mother was the late great tragedienne Helena Modjeska, and he was her only son. He played in the green rooms of Europe while she enacted the rolling romantic tragedies of the 1860s and '70s. In 1876 personal tragedies forced her to go to raw California as a ranch developer. Almost forgotten became her husband, Gustav Modrzejewski...