Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Caledonia faced Schenectady at Utica, Caledonia was led by grizzled James Whyte, 75, who thinks nothing of playing 42 ends in one day. Septuagenarian Whyte, aided by his teammate. Septuagenarian A. P. Roth, outplayed the comparatively young Schenectady team, beat them 15-to-14, took the Fred Allen Medal. Then with ear-splitting song, the hardy curlers shouldered their brooms and paraded to the bar for refreshment...
...Charles Rockwell Lanman was born in 1850 and graduated from Yale in 1871. Appointed professor of Sanskrit here in 1880, he is now emeritus. Three years ago he was one of the eight non-Japanese scholars awarded the Japanese Medal at the celebration of the 2500th anniversary of Buddha's birth. The fabulous number of miles he has rowed since coming here has won him the title "Charles River" Lanman...
...recognition of his world wide services in the development of public health," Frederick F. Russell, professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, has been awarded the Buchanan medal by the Royal Society of London...
...veteran of the Ethiopian campaign but on the Italian side was the third casualty, hulking, grey-haired Edward J. Neil, 37, whose boast it was that neither he nor his father had ever worked for anyone but the Associated Press. Long-time a Manhattan sports writer, he won a medal and the title Commendatore from Marshal Badoglio in Ethiopia, went on night raids with Arab sharpshooters in Palestine, reported King George's Coronation, and scooped the world on the Rightist capture of Bilbao by filing his story under fire...
...book, "History of Harvard College," Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History, was awarded the Jean Jules Jusserand medal at the fifty-second meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia last week...