Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also announced recently that Walter Francis Bogner of Boston, who has been a special student at the Architectural School for the past two years, had been awarded the Rotch Travelling Scholarship by the Boston Society of Architecture. This distinction, which is one of the most important of its kind, entitles the recipient to two years' study, abroad...
...some of us by our English ancestors. So far, however, as democracy means a levelling, either up or down, there is for us an invaluable corrective of dull uniformity in the often whimsical, but always personal utterances of German poets. The foremost of these poets are interpreted in special courses provided by the Department, or studied in connection with other writers of their time, both native and foreign; the valiant Lessing, ever alert in the defense of truth and reason; Goethe, perhaps the most comprehensive genius of modern times, a liberator from everything commonplace; Schiller, apostle of freedom, morality...
...final score in the Harvard-Yale tennis match, which rain on Saturday cut off at the tied score of 4-4, will not be determined until June 25, when Ingraham and Whitbeck will again meet Jones and Watson in Philadelphia at the Intercollegiates in a special match especially for the purpose of breaking the draw...
More pondering at Wisconsin. Advices from Madison, seat of the University, told, last week, that at a special meeting Regent Michael Olbrich arose to nominate "one of America's great men," a college president's onetime secretary, a noted merchant's onetime associate, now a distinguished editor, thinker, liberal reformer in Church and State. Regent Olbrich nominated Editor Glenn Frank of The Century Magazine, salting his eulogy with the pertinent fact that Editor Frank, only 38 years old, should have much life left in him to give to the University of Wisconsin at $12,000 a year...
Such was the millennialistic idea put forward, last week, by Dr. Carleton Simon, Special Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City. It struck Special Deputy Police Commissioner Herman A. Metz as such a good idea that he promptly offered a prize of $100,000 for discovery of the synthetic formula...