Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quaint sanctum of the Lampoon yesterday afternoon a medal inscribed "Lampy to Francis W. Saunders for the Best Artistic Work of his Year" was presented to that editor in token of his winning the $1500 Scholarship award for foreign study, offered this year for the first time to "the Senior editor with the most deserving artistic or literary merit...
...ceremony was simple and unostentatious. Mr. John Templeman Coolidge '79, whose drawings appeared in the Lampoon during its first year, announced the decision of the Committee of award to a group of editors assembled for tea. Besides the money award to Saunders, a second medal, signifying Honorable Mention, was awarded to Lovering Hathaway, Sp. Mr. J. T. Wheelwright '76, one of the founders of the magazine, presented the medals on behalf of the Trustees. In his speech of presentation he stressed the value of the prize in stimulating cooperative work for the Lampoon by the editors...
When Homer St. Gaudens was seven, his father visited Robert Louis Stevenson, taking the child with him. The purpose of the visit was to make a bronze medal of the writer, who was then sick-a-bed, making his plans for a visit to the South Sea Islands. There was great difficulty in getting a pose which was not artificial and forced. The sculptor at last suggested that Stevenson write something. He picked up a sheet of paper and began, at once falling into the natural pose immortalized in the famed St. Gaudens Medal. At the end of the pose...
...books in a recent exhibition held by the Ameri- Institute of Graphic Arts in New York City for trade editions. One of these, "Dr. Johnson", a study in eighteenth century humanism by Percy H. Houston G'06, Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, was awarded a medal for excellence in the general quality of the edition. A similar exhibition has been held for several years as part of the society's endeavor to cultivate printing by bringing together and comparing all the trade edition books of the year that claim distinction. Books which were printed in limited...
...Lewis, recent winner of the Willard Gibbs medal in physical chemistry, upheld the magnetic nature of the electrons, which, like any other current of electricity, become magnets when moving in circles. They travel in pairs, 180 degrees apart, neutralizing each other, and thus holding together all chemical compounds. Instead of the Bohr atom with its positive nucleus, Dr. Lewis claimed that the electrons, though having orbits, do not revolve around the "kernel" of the atom. No one has been able to work out a satisfactory path for these paired electronic orbits, but that fact does not bother the chemists...