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...Harvard Athletic Association has just received a tennis trophy, presented by H. C. Pell, Jr. '05, former lectures at Harvard and Columbia and a member of the Harvard University Visiting Committee, for use as an award in inter-House tennis tournaments...
...award will be made specifically for Professor Conant's work on reduction and oxidation phenomena, haemoglobin, free radicals, and for his quantitative study of organic reactions. The prize was instituted by friends of Professor Charles Frederick Chandler, the founder of the American Chemical Society...
...award, which is made to the competing athlete "who, by his or her performance or by his or her example and influence as an amateur and as a man or woman, has done most during the past year to advance the cause of sportsmanship", is made by a jury composed of 600 leaders in sports. Wood polled 236 votes, compared to 424 for Berlinger, and 111 for Ellsworth Vines, national tennis champion. The vote this year was one of the closest ever recorded for the medal...
Morningside Heights greeted the Butler award with loud hosannas. This has been a Butler year at Columbia: it marks the 69th anniversary of the learned doctor's birth, the 30th anniversary of his presidency of the University. The Nobel Prize could have come at no better time. To Europeans the reward seemed well merited. Dr. Butler is reputedly the man who persuaded Andrew Carnegie to establish the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. No U. S. citizen is better known in European chancelleries, none has been so often honored...
King Carol toyed with the idea of exiling his brother, cutting off his income. But on advice from his ministers that Prince Nicholas was gaining great popularity with younger army officers, he thought better of it, decided to award Nicholas an annual income of $36,000 and allowed him to retire to his model farm at Snagov. It was announced that Prince Nicholas would receive the commoner's name of Nicholas Brosteanu...