Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Engineer Charles K. Needham. Needham, a sentimental bachelor who died ten years ago at 80, once read Jean Jacques Rousseau's novel Emile, wherein that 18th-Century romantic tried to persuade French mothers to nurse their own children. Persuaded in his turn, Needham bequeathed money for an annual prize ($100 to $200) for the healthiest white Louisville baby nine to 15 months old. "nourished by its mother for a period ol at least nine months...
...Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, "Tannhauser" Wagner *Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark *Turkish March Mozart *"Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier *Suite from the Ballet "Nutcracker" Tchaikovsky Walther's Prize Song from "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner *Divertissement Ibert *Roses from the South," Waltzes Strauss *Malaguena Lecuona *Strike Up the Band" Gershwin...
Hillyer believed that the biography award "was a good choice." As for the drama award Hillyer declared "For my part I am glad that "Our Town" won the drama prize instead of "Of Mice and Men" which seems to me overrated...
Among the oldest prizes in the University, the Bowdoin Prizes were established under the will of Governor James Bowdoin of the class of 1745. The Sargent Prize was first offered in 1886-87 by John Osborne Sargent of the class of 1830, and was endowed in 1892 by his daughter, Georgianna W. Sargent...
Mary E. Townsend, Radcliffe '40 rose before breakfast Monday morning to plant her prize blossom, but a few hours later she found it in a vast of water, brightening up one of the administration offices...