Davidson Will Be Given Signet Society Medal

"The Signet Medal for Achievement in the Arts" is being given this year to Archibald T. Davison '06, formerly professor of Choral Music, who has recently been given the chair of James Edward Ditson Professor of Music.

This is the fifth year in which the Signet Society has awarded the medal. The recipients are former members of the society who have excelled during the preceding year in some field of arts and letters.

Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, was presented with the first medal in 1937. In the previous year he had written his definitive "Three Centuries of Harvard." Van Wyck Brooks '08, whose best-selling "The Flowering of New England" won the Pulitzer Prize, was awarded the second medal in 1938.

Gluyas Williams '11 won the 1939 medal as a result of his cartoons of suburban life, and last year's award was given to Robert E. Sherwood '18 in recognition of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois."