Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Bliss prize of $100 was won last year by Harold V. B. Cloveland '38 for the best appear among the twenty-five submitted in the contest under Plan I. This year, contestants under Plan I will be examined in the autumn and those under Plan II in the spring...
...examination under Plan II, are concentrators in American History and American Literature, together with all other students credited with a total of more than a course and a half in these fields (including courses which are being taken at the time of the examination). Under Plan I the annual prize in $100; under Plan II a first and a second prize are offered, of $100 and $50 respectively...
Yale speakers will compete against the Crimson on October 31 in the Public Library auditorium, while trips to the State Prison Colony at Norfolk; Vassar, Mt. Holyoke, Yale, Amherst, McGill are planned. No one will be allowed to participate in the spring H-Y-P Coolidge Prize trials unless he has tried out in the October or February Council trials. Membership will be restricted to 20 members this year...
Every Norwegian recalled that the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize went to half-brother Sir Austen Chamberlain and Charles G. Dawes for their part in paving the way for the Pact of Locarno. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, as he then was, received from King George V a much rarer honor than elevation to the peerage, knighthood in the Order of the Garter, and in British circles this week Mr. Neville Chamberlain was slated to receive equal honors at the hands of King George VI. Birmingham University was at once presented last week with a $50.000 scholarship fund, donated by Midland Publisher...
Five years ago Herbert Sebastian Agar won the Pulitzer Prize for history with The People's Choice. Critical beefing about Pulitzer Prize selections has gone on ever since there has been a Pulitzer Prize, but that time reached a crescendo. Historians called The People's Choice inaccurate. Leftists said it was fascist and critics said its selection on literary grounds was preposterous. Some of the outcry arose because half-a-dozen better works of history were published in 1933 but most of it came from opposition to Mr. Agar's thesis-that democracy was a dismal failure...