Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sales Prize of $60, to the best scholar in Spanish "who shall have commenced the study of that language at Harvard College and whose scholarship shall be determined by his proficiency in Spanish Composition" was awarded to John W. Walsh '34, of Quincy, for the best translation of a passage into Spanish...
...staging of President Wintergreen's political activities in the Pulitzer Prize-winning success, Of Thee I Sing, will be further aroused by the publication of the ex-President's Diary. Edited by Author Morrie Ryskind, collaborator with George S. Kaufman in the play, it is the product of that scholar's diligent research: only after six months' digging (in the new subway on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue) did he finally succeed in unearthing it. It covers roughly the first four months of ex-President Wintergreen's administration. In its confidential pages the ex-President makes a clean breast...
...sees evidenced through the whole extent of the writer's work. Previous Meyer-Investigators, notably Brecht, d'Harcourt, and Faesi, have arrived rather by deductive means, at conclusions suggesting this, for example Faesi's statement that artistic creations may be either image or counterpart of their creator; but no scholar hitherto has advanced so logically from detail to totality, and none has formulated as precisely this ultimate answer to the problem, as the author of this book. Not that Meyer was the spirit of an Italian condottiere in the body of a burgher of the humdrum Swiss nineteenth century...
...Foshay '31, Henry Fellow, of Port Chester, New York; C. E. Galston '30, 2L, of Woodmere, New York; J. C. Hubbard, Jr. '31, 1G, of Wayland; W. H. MacHale '31, 1GB, of Douglaston, New York; R. W. Meadows '32, of Buffalo, New York, Vernon Munroe, Jr. '31, Fiske Scholar, of New York City; J. H. Pratt '30, 1L, of Washington, D.C.; A. N. Webster '31, 1L, of Lexington
...World War?"a great national story, displaying the American character in its finest aspects." Henry Fowles Pringle won the Biography Prize ($1,000) with his Theodore Roosevelt?"especially valuable for its candor and its human quality." The Poetry Prize ($1,000) was awarded to 26-year-old Guggenheim Scholar George Dillon for The Flowering Stone?"original and authentic . . . very great promise...