Word: prize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...awards, one a travelling fellowship in Greek, and the other a prize in Economics which carries with it publication of the winning thesis, have been made by the University, it was announced this morning...
...Studies for the year 1929-30 on the basis of a thesis written on a subject in the field of the classics. Way gained his master's degree at Harvard in 1926, and is now pursuing work in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The David A. Wells Prize in Economics was won by John Van Sickle 21, for an essay entitled "Direct Taxation in Austria 1918-1923". Van Sickle got his bachelor's degree in 1927 at Cornell before coming to Harvard to study...
...winner had not been mentioned among the possibilities before the race. He is a half-brother of Easter Hero. He cost his owner, Mrs. M. A. Gemmell, $25,000. This was his first victory for her and carried a prize of $65,000. Mrs. Gemmell saw little of the race herself. She is small and was wedged into the huge crowd so tightly she could hardly turn her head...
...cause of these various opinions was a controversy resulting from the recent (TIME, March 18) Harvard Awards−advertising prizes. This year's jury awarded to Marcus & Co., "with recognition to Charles A. Hammarstrom," the sum of $1,000 "for the advertisement most effective in its use of pictorial illustration as the chief means of delivering its message." But no mention was made of the fact that Mr. Hammarstrom is an advertising manager and that the picture was actually the work of famed Rockwell Kent.* In naming Mr. Hammarstrom, the Harvard School of Business Administration had followed its usual...
Since the award was for the advertisement "most effective in its use of pictorial illustration," the jurors who made the award were unquestionably thinking of the drawing as a Kent, not as a Hammarstrom product. Had Marcus & Co. argued that the prize winning advertisement was a Marcus & Co. achievement for which no personal credit should be given, their position would not be in conflict with the Harvard Award system, which generally glorifies organizations rather than individuals. What chiefly troubles Mr. Kent (and puzzles the advertising world) is that, having decided to give personal credit, Marcus & Co. put the laurel wreath...