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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sargent Kennedy, Secretary of Arts and Sciences, announced six more prize-winners for the 1948-49 academic year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Glean Laurels for Essays, Math Papers | 6/11/1949 | See Source »

...Without Actually Cheating." It is called "Test-manship" and gives some various practices which may be employed in "the art of taking exams without actually knowing anything." This piece of drollery, along with the cartoons, and an advertisement announcing that the lampoon is offering a prize of 3 dollars "to the sophomore who stands lowest in the class at the end of the year without actually being expelled," are the only contributions to humor made this month by the Bow street rakes. There may, indeed, be some truth to the report that the idle clerks in Roger Kent have taken...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: On the Shelf | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

Theory & Practice. In Ann Arbor, Mich., Fred Viegel, 19, winner of a 1947 prize for an essay on fire prevention, was charged with burning down a rural schoolhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Prize. This time there was to be no slip-up when it came to the payoff. Louis Johnson raised the money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Master of the Pentagon | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Approximately $180 will go to Martin Boykan '51 of New York City and Dudley Hall who won the George Arthur Knight Prize for his "Nocturne for String Trio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Award of 7 Annual Liberal Arts Prizes for 1948-1949 Announced | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

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