Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best known books are "Joseph in Egypt," a monumental work as yet only partially written, and "The Magic Mountain," the novel which was instrumental in winning for its author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. Of his other writings "Tonio Kreeger" and "Buddenbrooks" are the best known in America...
Harry Brown '41 is one of the winners of the Shelley Memorial Award in poetry for 1938, according to word received here. The prize amounts to $475. The other recipient is Robert Francis of Amherst...
Brown is Pegasus of the Advocate and won the Garrison Prize in Poetry his Freshman year, in 1937. Last year he was not in college. In 1935 he won the Young Poets' prize of "Poetry" magazine...
...education is the recognition of one's self and one's environment--to that end--is not education through the self of primary importance? The university should recognize that no teacher can teach anything; from him, students can only learn. A Bliss Prize Exam, "a notable reading list in history, a series of brilliant lectures, a group of earnest scholars"--all these are useless without the student's personal drive...
...Garfield is convincing as a "tough" prize-fighter, but the picture is melodramatic and uninspired. Fleeing to Arizona to escape conviction for a murder of which he is innocent, the fighter meets the Dead End Kids, May Robson, and a blonde, who manage to revive the clean American spirit in him. Mr. Garfield's acting and the Kids' wisecracking do not prevent the picture from being overlong and overdone...