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The Bancroft Awards Dinner

The Bancroft Awards Dinner, sponsored by the Friends of the
Columbia Libraries, was held at the Men's Faculty Club, Monday
evening, April 20th.

The Bancroft Prizes are granted annually by the Trustees of
Columbia University under terms of the will of the late Frederic
Bancroft for "distinguished writings in American History, Ameri¬
can Diplomacy, or American International Relations." The prizes
for 1952 were granted to The Era of Good Feelings, by George
Dangerfield and published by Harcourt Brace and Company, and
to Rendezvous with Destiny, a History of Modern American Re¬
form, by Eric F. Goldman and published by Alfred A. Knopf.

August Fleckscher, Chief Editorial Writer of the New York
Herald-Tribune, presided, and the presentations were made by
President Grayson Kirk. The principal speaker of the evening was
Professor Allan Nevins, DeWitt Clinton Professor of American
History at Columbia and a 1948 Bancroft Prize winner. He spoke
on "Some Aspects of American Scholarship as Represented by
Frederic Bancroft."

Almost two hundred guests attended, including Friends, pro¬
fessors, historians, publishers, and critics assembled to pay honor
to the prize-winners, their books, and their publishers. The
Bancroft Awards Dinner is one of the most pleasant and significant
of the activities of the Friends. By sponsoring this annual event,
the Friends join with others in acclaiming two distinguished his¬
torians and their works and thus carry out the wishes of one of the
chief benefactors of the Columbia Libraries.
 

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