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Appointment of four proctors to serve in College dormitories during the academic year, in addition to those announced last spring was made public yesterday. Also announced was the award of prizes to outstanding students in the Law School during the past year...
Birthday. John Joseph Pershing, his 80th. After Franklin Roosevelt had presented him the only military award he had not previously received, the Distinguished Service Cross, the erect, silver-haired, kindly-faced old man walked into his darkened War Department office. On its walls hung oil portraits of the five U. S. Generals of the Armies: Washington, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Pershing. On its neat, massive desk stood a single memento: an old World Series baseball with fading autographs. Quizzed by a battery of surrounding newshawks, he had slow, measured words of hope for the British. Later, in a broadcast...
...Football Thru the Years (Gridiron Publishing Co.; $2.50) depicts the history of U. S. football-from Rugby's Bigside and Eton's Wall Game (British-born ancestors of U. S. football), through the white-canvas-shod, stocking-capped era of the '80s, down to the latest award made by the Touchdown Club-with turn-of-the-century photographs, cartoons and illustrations by such artists as the late great Arthur B. Frost and Frederic Remington. Among its outstanding illustrations : Artist Frost's sketch of the Yale-Princeton game (see cut) played in Hoboken on Thanksgiving...
...being "the outstanding flyers of the world for 1939," the Ligue Internationale des Amateurs (headquarters: Manhattan) awarded the Harmon International Trophy to two New Yorkers: Jacqueline Cochran and Major Alexander P. ("Sascha") de Seversky. Pretty, 31-year-old Aviatrix Cochran is the wife of Wall Street Tycoon Floyd Odium, has won the award twice before.* In 1939 she became the first of her sex to make a blind landing, set five national and two international records, some of them in planes designed by Major Seversky. Sascha Seversky himself holds a handful of records despite having lost...
...addition to tutoring, the Undergraduate Faculty supervises the award of about ten scholarships to high school graduates wishing to take the regular University Extension courses offered evenings by members of the faculties of Harvard and several other Greater Boston colleges and universities. These are known as the Abraham Michaelman Scholarships...