Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Notre Dame University reminded the casual world that it is not purely a football club. It awarded its Laetare Medal, designed after the Golden Rose given by Popes to European churchmen and intended to be one of the highest honors a Catholic-American can receive for distinction in arts or science, to Actress Margaret Anglin, sister of the Chief , Justice of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Francis Anglin. Other women had been so honored before: Eliza Allen Starr for art criticism; Agnes Repplier for essays; Christian Reed for novels; Katherine E. Con way for poetry. Actress Anglin's distinction...
Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt: "People discovered last week that the Government awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to me 'after consistent gallantry, conspicuous energy and marked efficiency during the World War. I have known about the award lor five years, but I asked the War Department not to confer the medal upon me while I was Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...local competition will receive a prize of $100, and will become the Harvard entrant in the final competition for the intercollegiate prize. This competition will be held simultaneously in the several colleges on May 14, and its winner will receive a prize of $500 and a gold medal. C. E. Wyzanski '27, who won the Harvard contest last year, was awarded the inter-collegiate prize as well...
...Frank N. Meyer Agricultural medal was awarded to Professor Sargent by the American Genetic Association. The medal was presented to him by President Lowell at a luncheon of the overseers committee on the Arnold Arboretum...
...there is a man in the U. S today who merits the title of Grand Old Man," it is Mr. Warren. His fame goes back to the Civil War when he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry on the field of battle; back to the '70s when he, astride a horse, was making Wyoming something more than an Indian playground; back to the '80s when he was Governor of the territory; back to 1890 when he first entered the U. S. Senate. ... And perhaps in 1931, when his present term expires, he will be guiding...