Word: prize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey university have spent more years in the White House than those of any other institution in the country. The race for this honor was close, with the Tiger's victory depending upon a half year's margin over Harvard. But a win obviously is a win, and the prize goes to Princeton...
After several unsuccessful attempts to procure an opponent for the Harvard scholars, the authorities have been forced to postpone for at least a year the second competition for the Putnam Prize, which was inaugurated last Spring in the cultural contest with Yale. The belated start made by the officials leaves no time for any further efforts to find at willing rival; and so the University will not be called upon to defend the laurels won for the first time last year...
...Post, with many other good G. O. Papers, was "disappointed" in Mr. Hoover because, under ill-disguised pressure from the Anti-Saloon League and the Ku Klux Klan, he had rejected William Joseph Donovan, a prize Hooverite but a Roman Catholic and a Wet. Before the eager Donovan eye were juggled first the Attorney-Generalship, then the War portfolio. Mr. Hoover finally had to withdraw both. The best he could offer his good friend was the Governor-Generalship of the Philippines, which Col. Donovan refused, leaving Mr. Hoover to wonder if he had been disloyal to an old friend...
Thirty men delivered selections yesterday afternoon in the trials for the Lee Wade and Boylston prize speaking competition. Although the ten speakers who will appear in the finals on April 3, are to be chosen on yesterday's showing, Professor F. C. Packard Jr. '20 has not yet announced their names...
...This prize is the third oldest in the University and has always attracted many candidates; last year 54 men reported at the preliminary trials. The award amounts to one prize of $50 and two of $20, and the selections may be given in English, Latin, or Greek...