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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wednesday, April 8, the first trials for men wishing to compete in the Pasteur medal debate contest will be held in Sever 36 at 8 o'clock. Men intending to try out should prepare a five minute talk on either side of the question "Resolved, That the Briand proposal for a federation of European states is in the interest of national good will...
...Pasteur Medal was founded in 1898, by Baron Pierre de Courbertin, to be awarded to the successful candidate in an annual debate on a subject drawn from contemporary French politics, the debate to be conducted in English. The administration of the prize is in the hands of the French department, which is authorized to call in the aid of other instructors, students, or graduates in deciding on the terms under which it is to be given...
Awarded. Jointly to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon on his 76th birthday (Mar. 24) and his brother Banker Richard Beatty Mellon within his 73rd birthday week (Mar. 19) : the medal of the American Institute of Chemists; for establishing and maintaining the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh and for helping create the National Institute of Health under the Treasury Department...
...University Hall at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, to establish a Harvard chapter. In the evening at 7 o'clock a dinner will be given in the Harvard Union, at which Professor Harlow Shapley, of the Harvard Observatory, who recently was awarded the American Society of Arts and Sciences' medal for great scientific achievement, will preside, and at which Professor G. W. Stewart, national president of the Society of the Sigma Xi, President Lowell, and Dr. K. T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be among the speakers...
Professor Shapley was first notified of the honor yesterday afternoon at his office in the Harvard observatory. The formal presentation of the medal will take pace at a banquet to be given in New York next fall...