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...Prix de Rome (for sculpture) offered by the American Academy at Rome, was awarded for next year to Alvin Meyer, of Cambridge, Maryland. Meyer is at present a student at the Academy. There are two other Prix de Rome awarded annually, for painting and architecture...
...violent gale brought disaster to several of 20 spherical balloons entered in Paris for the Grand Prix of the Aero Club of France. Some were smashed against the walls of the Tuilleries Palace; others torn from their moorings with pilots on board are headed for Germany. It is feared that unauthorized landings will mean fines and imprisonments for the occupants...
Perhaps the most unusual item on the program is the first number by Madame Lili Boulanger, entitled "Pour les Funerailles d'un Soldat". Madame Boulanger is the only woman who has ever won the "Prix de Rome", the most coveted prize of the Paris Conservatory of Music...
Professor Haffner came from France a year ago to accept a professorship at the University Architectural School. He ranks as a winner of the Grand Prix de Rome, one of the highest honors to which architects aspire. In 1904 he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he was one of the most prominent students. Among other honors at the Ecole, he won first prize in the Concours Chevenard, the Concours Roux, and the Concours Rongevin, but it was not until 1914, a short time before the war broke out, that he received the Grand Prix de Rome...
Since taking up his work in the University he has promoted cooperation between the University School of Architecture and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where M. Albert Ferran, also a winner of the Grand Prix, took charge of design at the same time that Professor Haffner started work at the University...