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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant this morning brought to a close the Tercentenary Year in the traditional Commencement ceremony in Sever Quadrangle with the award of a record number of degrees, 1965. This number exceeds that given last year by almost...
President Conant will then award the honorary degree and the degrees to those graduating from the University. The senior class marshals who will accept the degrees on behalf of the class will be Shaun Kelly, Jr. '36, Richard Maguire '36 and Robert C. Hall...
...three years Mr. Kent was able to buy a one-cylinder automobile, "not being married and not having to conserve cash," he explains. From the ignition trouble in that car dates the rise of Kent. Develop ing an ignition system of his own, which earned him a Franklin Institute award in 1914, he proceeded to make Atwater Kent synonymous with good electrical equipment on the pre-War U. S. automobile. Self-starters and lighting systems followed logically. By 1917 Atwater Kent was big enough to get special Army orders for precision war tools like fuse setters, machine-gun sights...
...BEST SHORT STORIES: 1936- Edited by Edward J. O'Brien-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). The 22nd annual offering of one of the two best-known short- story annuals. The other: O. Henry Memorial Award, now in its 17th year...
Thereupon Vasile Foar sued B. & O. for $37,500 damages. A jury eventually awarded him $4,500. The case was then carried to a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week in Chicago the Circuit Court handed down a unanimous decision holding that Vasile Foar had been discharged without cause, confirming his 4,500 award. By this time Vasile Foar...