nervous breakdown, he left The Dial in 1925 and formally resigned in 1926. Marianne Moore, a contributor to The Dial and advisor, became Managing Editor in 1925. She became the magazine's editor-in-chief upon Thayer's resignation. Ernest Hemingway published his poem The Soul of Spain With McAlmon and Bird the Publishers in the German magazine Der Querschnitt where he directly attacked The Dial in 1924. Der Querschnitt was seen as a German counterpart of The Dial by some. Scofield Thayer's mental health continued to deteriorate, and he was hospitalized in 1927. Around this time, Watson began to delve into avant garde films, leaving Moore to her own auspices as editor-in-chief. Toward the end of the magazine's run, the staff felt that they were staying on because of an obligation to continue rather than a drive to be a strong, modern magazine. When the magazine ended in 1929, the staff was confident that the precedent they set would be carried on by other magazines. In 1981, the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, held an exhibition titled "The Dial": Arts and Letters in the 1920s and published a catalog titled The Dial: Arts and Letters in the 1920s: An anthology of writings from The Dial magazine, 1920-29, Edited by Gaye L. Brown. The Dial Award In June 1921, Thayer and Watson announced the creation of the Dial Award, $2000 to be presented to one of its contributors, acknowledging their "service to letters" in hopes of providing the artist with "leisure through which at least one artist may serve God (or go to the Devil) according to his own lights." The first of these awards was granted in January 1922 to Sherwood Anderson for work he had published in the magazine in 1921. Eight Dial Awards were given in all. 1921. Sherwood Anderson 1922. T. S. Eliot 1923. Van Wyck Brooks 1924. Marianne Moore 1925. E. E. Cummings 1926. William Carlos Williams 1927. Ezra Pound 1928. Kenneth Burke Notable contributors by volume In its literary phase, The Dial was published monthly. Notable contributors for each of its volumes (six-month intervals) are summarized below. Vol. 68 (January–June 1920) Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Randolph Bourne, Kenneth Burke, Malcolm Cowley, Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, Charles Demuth, Kahlil Gibran, Gaston Lachaise, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Odilon Redon, Paul Rosenfeld, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Gilbert Seldes (Sganarelle), Van Wyck Brooks, W.