Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Funds for the awards were made available to the College at the classes' 50th and 25th reunions respectively, last June, Allan H. W. Higgins '25, chairman of his class reunion, told the CRIMSON at that time that the 1925 award would go to students "who show prowess in athletics and other non-scholastic affairs and who meet the College's regular entrance requirements...
...Tolerance Snob ("has a special predilection for getting his name printed on letterheads"), the Pot Luck Snob (Casserole Division), the Great-Out-of-Doors Snob, the Freudian Snob ("I have more inhibitions than anyone"), the Efficiency Snob ("answers the phone by barking just his last name"), the Physical Prowess Snob, the Eternal Verities Snob (Back to the Land Division), the Conservative Dress Snob ("The buttons on the sleeves of his jacket actually unbutton...
...quite a bit of it recently, few Americans really know very much about Ivy College, located in the town of Ivy, U.S.A. No one, for instance, knows how many students it has, or has much idea of the quality of its faculty, the size of its endowments, or the prowess of its football team. The only thing that the U.S. public really knows about the college is its president, a kindly, debonair gentleman named William Todhunter Hall...
Radcliffe administrators and gym instructors will get a chance to prove their athletic prowess against the undergraduate field hockey squad at 4:30 p.m. the afternoon on the Annex Quadrangle...
...Club has appointed Tim Russell, a former College football player of fairly recent vintage, to head its staff now at work trying to locate young men of scholastic and athletic prowess and convincing such persons that Harvard is the place for them. Russell will work in close cooperation with Jordan; his is a noble and encouraging undertaking...