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...Rice is a wealthy Boston physician who has devoted much of his life to scientific exploration, has received the medal of the Royal Geographical Society, of London. Mrs. Rice is a daughter of the late William L. Elkins, of Philadelphia, and the widow of George D. Widener, who, with their son, went down on the Titanic. She barely escaped with her life. Dr. and Mrs. Rice had their honeymoon on an expedition to the Amazon, and have spent years in the jungle since. It is Dr. Rice's sixth expedition, financed wholly by himself, and will last two years...
More prominent among the exhibitions are: Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, a rose, by F. R. Pierson of Tarrytown, N. Y.; Sensation, by C. H. Totty; The Mary Pickford, an orchid by Joseph Manda, of West Orange, N. J. Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox was awarded a special gold medal for her lilies...
...paintings have been shown regularly at a great many exhibitions in the various cities of this country, and in 1915, Mr. Hopkinson won the Beck Gold Medal for a portrait at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition. At the recent exhibition in Chicago another of his pictures had a conspicuous place. After the war, in 1919, Mr. Hopkinson was one of the American artists asked to go to Europe to paint the notables of the Peace Conference, where his three excellent portraits of the Serbian, Bulgarian, and Japanese Envoys were outstanding examples of his work...
Professor L. J. A. Mercier, and R. L. Hawkins, and Mr. E. L. Raiche, all of the French department, will be the judges of the preliminary debates for the Pasteur medal, which will be held at 8 o'clock this evening in Sever 36. This competition is open to all men in the University, candidates being required to speak for five minutes on either the affirmative or negative side of the question: "Resolved, that the demilitarization of the left bank of the Rhine under international supervision, is necessary for the maintenance of peace in Europe...
This will be the twenty-seventh annual debate for the medal established in 1898 by Pierre de Cubertin, who had been sent to America to study American educational institutions. He established contests in various colleges under the name of Frenchmen of importance, naming the one at Harvard after Pasteur...