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William L. Copithorne '38 of Semerville, has been named winner of the English Sophomore Tutorial Prize essay award, this year for his essay. "The Theory of Characterization in Herole Tragedy...
...best letter of too words or less offering constructive criticism or defense of the typical collegiate motion pictures, and written by a student or faculty member of a college or university in the United States, COLLEGIATE DIGEST will award a prize of $10. The writer of the second best letter will recerve a prize of $5. Send you letter NOW to Motion Picture Editor, COLLEGIATE DIGEST SECTION, P O Box 472, Madison, Wis. Letters cannot be returned to writers...
...Paris last week the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs named as recipient of the Harmon Trophy that super-careful, monosyllabic antithesis of a grandstand flyer. Captain Edwin C. Musick, 42, No. 1 pilot of Pan American Airways. The award includes the title of ''World's Outstanding Aviator" for 1935. Famed among flyers as perhaps the ablest flying-boat pilot on earth, but practically unknown to the U. S. public until Pan American began its methodical march across the Pacific (TIME, Dec. 2), Captain Musick has never been known to stunt a commercial plane, has had no accidents...
Prize for Promise. The Langmuir Prize of $1,000 is awarded annually by the society to a chemist under 30 years of age who shows promise of an exceptionally brilliant career. Last week's winner was John Gamble Kirkwood, who was born in Gotebo, Okla. 29 years ago, got his Ph. D. at 23 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is now an assistant professor at Cornell. Of little interest to laymen, Dr. Kirkwood's work on the dielectric properties of gases under pressure and on polarization phenomena in methane, nitrogen and hydrogen provided invaluable working tools...
Graduate students will benefit from the fund, for the first time by the new gift, which establishes national scholarships primarily for award to men in the graduate schools. The stipend for each of these scholarships will be adjusted to the financial resources of the recipient, with a maximum of about $1000 a year...