Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rabindranath Tagore, the noted Indian poet, musician, educator and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913, will speak at Tremont Temple, Boston, tonight. The subject of his lecture will be "The Cult of Nationalism." Tagore has been acclaimed by many as the greatest living poet. His writings reflect the romantic spirit of the East, and most of his poems are written to a weird moaning Rengali music, which he himself composes. He has translated many of his own works, among them his short stories in the writing of which many critics claint his greatest genius lies. Tickets ranging...
...Internal to External Preparedness." M. LaFontaine has been a member of the Belgium Senate as a representative of the Socialist party for 22 years; he is a professor of international law, president of the International Parliamentary Bureau; secretary of the Union of International Associations, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913. At present he is touring the United States, giving lectures at many universities...
...literary exercises of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will take place in Sanders Theatre on Monday, June 19, at 12 o'clock. Professor Theodore William Richards '86, Ph.D., S.D., LL.D., Chem.D., Erving Professor of Chemistry, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year, will be the orator, and Robert Frost, author of "North of Boston," will be the poet. The floor and first balcony will be reserved for ticket holders until a few minutes before the program begins. The general public is cordially invited to attend, and particularly undergraduates, the presence of whom is greatly desired...
...second Freshman crew defeated the Exeter eight by half a length in the race over the half-mile course at Exeter last Saturday. The time made by the Freshmen was 2 minutes 33 4-5 seconds. The Exeter four-oared crew also lost to the Nobel and Greenough crew...
...director of the laboratory, Professor T. W. Richards, has acquired unusual distinction by winning the Nobel Prize with his table of atomic weights. Such an example should serve as a spur toward further accomplishments from this department of the University...