Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orator--Antonio G. Haas of Winthrop House, and Mazatian, Mexico; Advocate President, Bowdoin Speech Prize-winner, Phi Beta Kappa, Signet Society. George K. Bouzoukle of Kirkland House and Nashua, New Hampshire; Orchestra, John Reed Society Executive...
...Arthur G. Klein (Dem., N.Y.) cried that such "scatological skill . . . could spring only from a sick mind." Klein urged the formation of the Westbrook Pegler Annual Award of Journalistic Infamy, with the nomination committee to include the poundmaster and chief plumbing inspector of the District of Columbia, and the prize plaque to be "a rectangular shield transversed by a double cross, surmounted by a turkey buzzard . . . with jackal couchant in the left upper quarter and the symbolic figures of Truth and Decency outraged supine in the lower right quarter...
...Yale, when a second-rate law school and a third-rate medical school ("Starved and cold-shouldered," roared Angell) rose to take their places among the finest in the U.S., and when the school of the fine arts won so many Prix de Rome that the prize got to be known as the Prix de Yale. Angell cut across department barriers to give undergraduates an integrated curriculum. Under him, Yale began its system of residential colleges, started its university press and the Yale Review...
Competition for the $500 Benjamin Cardozo Prize was announced by the University yesterday. All students registered in the College or the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences may enter...
Manuscripts must be submitted to the Committee on the Cardoze Prize, Emerson 301, or to Professor Oscar Handlin, acting chairman of the Committee, on or before Monday, April...