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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winner of the Bonaparte Scholarship, prepared at White Plains High School. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, having been elected in the Junior Eight. He is president of the Liberal Club and vice-president of the New England Model League of Nations Assembly. The preference in the award of this scholarship is given to "students who have demonstrated an interest in the study of American government and who give promise of helping in after life to promote higher standards in government and citizenship...
...Awarded. To Jane Addams, co-founder of Chicago's Hull House: the annual $5,000 Achievement Award (for women only) of Pictorial Review for her work in social welfare and international peace. She announced she would give the money to Chicago's unemployed...
Honored. Dr. Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia University: with the John Fritz gold medal, top U. S. engineering award: *for his achievements as "scientist, engineer, author and inventor of the tuning of oscillating circuits and the loading of telephone circuits by inductance coils...
Those who who have yet to play the fourth round are J. M. Barnaby '33, H. M. Coggeshall 3L, R. A. Cooley '32, Henry Taylor 3G, G. P. Webber '33, and Edward Yeomans '33. Coggeshall, defending the Jackson Cup, the tournament award, will play the winner of the third round match between Edward Jones 3G.B. and J. L. Ware 3L. The champion, who has won national ranking honors should not find himself pressed to win again...
...Awarded. To the late Dr. Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy and member of its Nobel Prize Committee on Literature, who died at 66 last April; the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1931. He refused the award...