Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thirty-ninth annual Winter Track Carnival to be staged this afternoon at Soldiers Field. All members of the College are eligible to compete in the carnival with the exception of the special relay races, and the novice events in which only those who have never won a medal in college may participate. Gold, silver, and bronze medals will be awarded by the H. A. A. to the winners in each event...
John Fritz Medal. The John Fritz Gold Medal, one of the highest engineering honors in America, has been awarded for 1924 to Ambrose Swasey, of Cleveland. Mr. Swasey, born in New Hampshire in 1846, is now Vice Chairman of the Warner & Swasey Co., pioneer manufacturers of astronomical and optical apparatus, fine machine tools, precision instruments, military and naval rangefinders. Under his direction were built the 36-inch refractor at Lick Observatory, the 40-inch refractor at Yerkes Observatory (largest in the world), and the 72-inch reflecting telescope at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C. But his chief claim...
...John Fritz Medal was established in 1902 in honor of John Fritz, of Pittsburgh, pioneer iron and steel manufacturer, and is awarded annually for notable scientific or industrial achievement. Previous Fritz medallists include Bell, Marconi, General Goethals, Sir Robert Had-field (famed British engineer-capitalist) and Eugene Schneider (head of the great Creusot steel works of France...
Other American medals of importance in the field of the physical and engineering sciences are the Elliott Cresson Medal, of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, and the Rumford Medal. In Britain there are also the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society, the Bessemer Medal of the Iron and Steel Institute, and the John Scott Medal...
Except for the novice events and the special relay races, the meet is open to all undergraduates who wish to compete. The novice races are open only to those who have never won a track medal in college. Blue-books have been posted at Leavitt and Peirce's, the Freshman dormitories, the Locker Building, and the H. A. A., and all men who wish to participate may sign up in one of these books as soon as possible...