Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Lewis: No, no, no. I mean a place where you show coins and medals and things. I was thinking about a medal...
Scene: the main reading room of Yale University's expensive new Sterling Memorial Library. Time: convivial Derby Day last fortnight (TIME, May 25). Characters: Author Harry Sinclair Lewis, Yale 1907, possessor of a large gold medal worth $500 which he received along with his $46,350 Nobel Prize; Harrison Smith, Yale 1907, tall, dignified publisher (Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, Inc.); Dr. Charles Everett Rush, associate librarian in charge during the absence of Librarian Andrew Keogh; Gary Selden Rodman, an editor of Yale's Harkness Hoot, friend of Author Lewis. Dialog...
Last week Author Lewis explained that he had been offering Yale University his Nobel Prize Medal for its "permanent loan exhibit," that the university authorities were "very uncordial about...
...backer of Edison Electric Light Co., he organized the International Niagara Commission which was headed by Lord Kelvin, famed British scientist. As president (1890-99) of Cataract Construction Co. he led the development of power at Niagara Falls; for this he was given the John Fritz Gold Medal in 1926. Philanthropist, art patron, he enjoyed listing his membership in scores of educational, artistic and charitable organizations...
...anecdote which Sir James Hopwood Jeans told in Philadelphia last week when he received the Franklin Medal perhaps explains why the late great Albert Abraham Michelson dumped all his medals into out-of-the-way receptacles and why Sinclair Lewis tried to get Yale's Library to guard his Nobel Prize medal. Just before Sir James left England for his current U. S. visit he attended medal ceremonies at a small school outside Cambridge. The mayor was giving prizes to the children. To console losers the mayor announced: "When I was a schoolboy I never got a medal...