Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philip W. Thayer '14, a former Advocate Editor, acting in an official capacity for the Harvard Club of Singapore, has just offered a prize for the most striking article of the year in the Harvard Advocate. The prize, which will be $300 in cash, or a medal plus $90, will be awarded annually...
...Esme, aged 60, has held a number of diplomatic, consular and political posts, among which was that of Councillor of Embassy in Washington from 1906 to 1908. When the South African War broke out, he joined the Yeomanry as a trooper and received the Queen's medal and four clasps...
...always there is a reverse to the medal. To Harvard men and to some few others at least, Harvard indifference is really Harvard manifoldness or Harvard individualism a philosophy of live and let live, freedom of thought and speech and action carried to the furthest reasonable limit. And so those who believe in Harvard and its ideals make a virtue out of the very thing which the critics paint as the darkest vice...
Italian officers and soldiers of cowardice. Bruno Gemelli, Italian War hero and recipient of the gold medal for military valor, telegraphed him to consider himself slapped in the face, challenged him to a duel on the field of honor. M. Cassagrain, who failed to get any sting out of the hypothetical slap, telegraphed back that his wife was responsible for the derogatory statements about the Italian Army, begged to be excused...
...Rembrandt tradition (TIME, Oct. IS). Professor Van Dyke was also elected a Vice President of the National Institute, along with Louis Betts, painter, and Robert Aitken, sculptor. Arnold Brunner, the medallist, was made Treasurer of the Institute. The Institute may have 50 members. Each year it awards a gold medal for achievement in some fine art. This year the medal went to Edwin H. Blashfield, President of the National Academy of Design...