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Connected with the award of President Jackson's honorary degree, an amusing story persisted at Harvard for almost 100 years, to the effect that "Old Hickory" listened in evident dismay as the degree was conferred in Latin and then accepted the honor with a string of Latin phrases beginning with e pluribus unum and ending with hic jacel. The legend was doubtless due in part to the fact that Jackson was thoroughly hated in New England...
Contrary to the custom in previous contests, the award of $250 will be divided this year among the first three men, Cissel receiving $150 in cash and a bronze medal while Newland and Cohen will be awarded $75 and $25 respectively...
...Wheeler, professor of Entomology and dean of the Bussey Institution, has been presented the Joseph Leidy Memorial Award for 1931 by the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia...
...paper will also be submitted for competition in the national contest, where it will be judged with the winning papers of 19 other colleges. An additional prize of $500 will be given to the writer of the best paper in the intercollegiate competition. C. E. Wyzanski '27 won this award in 1926, while H. H. Kleinman '30 received honorable mention last year...
Truly I Love You and Reaching for the Moon (Victor)-The Troubadours' smooth ways win them Victor's Popular Record-of-the-Mqnth award...