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David Demarest Lloyd '31 of Plainfield, N. J. and John Chester Miller '30 of Tacoma. Washington, are the winners of prizes in the Department of History and Literature, it was announced yesterday. The History and Literature Prize founded by an anonymous donor was awarded to Miller as the member of the Junior Class showing the greatest promise in that field...
...Barrett Wendell Prize, awarded to Lloyd, is a book prize awarded each year to the member of the Sophomore Class concentrating in History and Literature who has made the most-notable progress during the year...
Murray Reed Benedict 1G of Brookings, S. D. is th recipient of the Ricardo Prize for 1929-1930, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. Benedict received his S.B. degree from Wisconsin in 1916. This prize is awarded to the winner of an examination open only to Seniors and graduate students. The competition is based upon an essay written in the examination room on a topic in economics and political science chosen by the candidate from a list not previously announced. The winner becomes the incumbent of the scholarship for the coming year and is enabled to carry...
...think it will be best if I do not serve on any of the juries in the future, since my business is lecturing on modern books, and naturally I have preferences which I must leave myself free to express." It was the second such reversal. For the 1921 novel prize, the board chose Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence after the Committee had recommended Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...
Another reversal this year was the cartoon prize. The selecting committee chose "Women Taken in Bootlegging" by Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The board decided on "Tammany" by Rollin Kirby of the New York World...